A wine cellar employee in France's Burgundy region has been arrested for stealing more than 7,000 bottles of wine over several years, in exchange for… Estimated value of more than 500,000 euros (About $540,000 at the current exchange rate), the Dijon prosecutor's office said Thursday. Dijon prosecutor Olivier Karakoč said the 56-year-old would have stolen “thousands of bottles over several years”.
It was captured on camera
Police found nearly 7,000 bottles in his home and his mother's home, representing a loss estimated at more than 500,000 euros, according to the public prosecutor. According to the local newspaper Journal de Saône-et-Loire, the man was Filmed by surveillance camera He stole four bottles, and after a complaint from his employer, he was arrested and his house was searched.
Investigators then ended up discovering thousands of bottles that the accused was in possession of It has accumulated over fifteen years. According to the newspaper, the prices of bottles, some of which are exceptional, may exceed 1,000 euros. The prosecutor noted that “there is no evidence to suggest that he would have sold any of the bottles.”
Grand theft
This theft One of the largest of its kind in Francecomparable in value Fort and 2019 In the house of a hundred-year-old Bordeaux wine broker Petrus and Mouton Rothschild fundsas well as a bottle of the finest Roman Contiburgundy is considered The most expensive wine in the world.
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