09/03/2011 11:35
$25m in jewels found in Paris sewer
French investigators have found jewels valued at 18 million euros ($24.83 million) hidden in a Paris rain sewer - part of the spectacular 2008 heist from luxury jeweller Harry Winston's Paris boutique.
Nineteen rings and three sets of earrings - one pair valued at 14 million euros ($A19.31 million) - were dug up from a drain at a house in the working class Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, police said, confirming a report on Europe-1 radio.
The jewels were hidden in a plastic container set in a cement mould inside the sewer, police said. The house belonged to one of the nine people charged in the heist.