No reward for the finder of Jaggers ring

[ageezer]

Jagger ring wrangle goes to court

Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger is a prominent human rights campaigner

An Austrian man who found a platinum ring belonging to human-rights activist Bianca Jagger is suing her for not paying him a reward.

Reinhard Ringler found the ring, worth 200,000 euros ($254,000; £175,000), in Salzburg last year.

According to Austrian law, he is due 5% of the value - 10,000 euros.

Ms Jagger, who was once married to the Rolling Stone singer Mick Jagger, refuses to pay as she says Mr Ringler took too long to return the item.

She claims he is not entitled to the reward as he took eight days to give it to the police.

Mr Ringler says he initially gave the platinum and aquamarine ring to his daughter, thinking it was worthless, and only realised its value when he saw reports of the lost ring in the media.

Ms Jagger's lawyer said that, as an alternative, she offered to pay 9,000 euros to Amnesty International and the remaining 1,000 to Mr Ringler's daughter.

However, negotiations have fallen through and the case will go to court in Salzburg during May.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7906642.stm

[Donnydave]

It does,nt say how he found it, and at least he did hand it in, if it was an old pensioner I could understand the reluctance to pay a reward, but at least she got her ring back and I doubt she would miss the money?

[Ken Johnson]

She should be greatfull for getting the ring back and do the righ thing and pay the reward 20% of its value would be more reasonable,Tight B---H!

[piker]

no different from treasure trove then

[Old Git John]

I was going to say something very rude, but thought better of it.