Hotel Guest's $800,000 Diamond Found . . . in Vacuum Cleaner Bag

By John Jeffay / December 11, 2023 / www.idexonline.com / Article Link

(IDEX Online) - A guest at the five-star Ritz Hotel, in Paris, has been reunited with her $800,000 diamond ring, after it was found in a vacuum cleaner bag.The owner, an unnamed Malaysian businesswoman, contacted police on Friday (8 December) after it disappeared from a table while she went out shopping at Place V?(C)ndome. She returned at around noon and found the ring was missing.The immediate suspicion was that she'd been the victim of a sophisticated and high-value heist.But two days later the hotel's security team located the ring, in the bag of a vacuum cleaner.A representative of the ring's owner told Le Parisien newspaper: "We would like to thank the staff at the Ritz Paris who mobilised for this search and who work each day with integrity and professionalism."Pic shows Ritz Hotel, Paris.

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