{"id":1428524,"date":"2026-08-16T15:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/treasures-in-the-basement-walls-a-cache-of-gold-worth-9-million-euros-was-found-during-construction-in-belgium\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:56:42","slug":"treasures-in-the-basement-walls-a-cache-of-gold-worth-9-million-euros-was-found-during-construction-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/treasures-in-the-basement-walls-a-cache-of-gold-worth-9-million-euros-was-found-during-construction-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasures in the basement walls: a cache of gold worth 9 million euros was found during construction in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"

A student discovered a cache of gold bars, nuggets and coins while digging in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, Belgium. The find is estimated to be worth around \u20ac9 million, and law enforcement is working to identify its origin and possible owners.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by The Guardian<\/a> .<\/p>\n

An 18-year-old student named Kobe was working on a construction site laying sewers on the grounds of an old manor house. During the excavation, workers discovered an object hidden in the brickwork of the basement.<\/p>\n

The cache contained numbered bank ingots, large natural nuggets, and ancient gold coins.<\/p>\n

“Suddenly we saw that there was something lying there. So we started digging it up. Then we saw a gold bar. It turned out that it was a little bigger than we thought,” the student said.<\/p>\n

The estate is located about 30 km northwest of Brussels. It was built at the end of the 19th century for the industrialist Theophilus Van Assche, who founded a brewery there that operated from 1899 to 1970.<\/p>\n

The historic complex is currently being reconstructed by the charitable organization CAW Oost-Vlaanderen. During the replacement of communications from the old premises, only the supporting walls were left, where the cache was discovered.<\/p>\n

After the discovery, the builders called the police. The gold was transported to a secure vault in Brussels.<\/p>\n

The East Flanders Public Prosecutor’s Office is to verify whether the precious metal has a criminal origin. At the same time, the descendants of the former owner of the estate, a charity and a construction company may claim the find.<\/p>\n

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A student discovered a cache of gold bars, nuggets and coins while digging in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, Belgium. The find is estimated to be worth around \u20ac9 million, and law enforcement is working to identify its origin and possible owners. This is reported by The Guardian . An 18-year-old student named Kobe was working on a construction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1428516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76875,76870,76871],"class_list":["post-1428524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-world","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}