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Diamonds in a car wash

Car cleaners at a Russian firm in St Petersburg got a surprise when they cleaned out one of their vacuum cleaners last week – a diamond pendant worth up to 300,000 euros. Vladimir Shapiro, owner of the car cleaning firm, said: “I didn’t know how much it was worth at first so I got a jeweler to come around and he said it was worth as much as 300,000 euros. When I heard the value my jaw dropped to the floor. You would have to notice losing something like this.”

He told Reuters he was not going to disclose much about the pendant so that he could return it to its true owner.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .