Published on 09.08.2022
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Justice » A lapidary from Friborg and his wife were sentenced after being defrauded by thugs to whom they wanted to sell a treasure that was not theirs.
A strange story of evaporated gold ingot cost a month-day suspended fine to a Friborg lapidary, convicted of breach of trust, and fifty-day fine, also suspended, to his wife, for unlawful appropriation, attempted insurance fraud and misleading justice.
This 24-carat affair began in October 2021, when an acquaintance of the lapidary entrusted him with a one-kilo gold bar to be polished. With care: the value of the plate was still 53,000 francs. Friendship is one thing, business is another: the custodian gave the owner of the bullion a duly signed receipt. And, as a guarantee, a crystal of phenakite (precious stone resembling quartz, which earned it its name meaning “deceiver” in Greek, editor’s note), of