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Armed orphaned accounts: countries threaten expropriation: “Banks stash money … – ABC Online

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In German banks are evidently million euros, to which no one logs more claims. How many unclaimed accounts there, although it is unclear. But the states sign Interest: You do not want that banks keep the money. Are we threatened with a wave of expropriation?

The federal states have expressed an interest in money, which lies on unclaimed accounts with banks and financial institutions. “It can not be that banks hoard money that does not deserve,” said North Rhine-Westphalia Finance Minister Norbert Walter-Borjans (SPD) the papers of Funke Media Group. The money stand to savers and their heirs – and if there are no heirs, the public

It is estimated that the German institutions shall store property worth several million euros to which even after many years no claims. logs. How many accounts there are, on which paid nothing and of which nothing is raised, is unclear.



Ultimately, the state inherits

Walter-Borjans has initiated a Country Working Group that deals with the topic concerned. He would like to introduce a central register of these accounts. If banks know that customers are deceased, they shall determine whether there is someone who is entitled under management balances. Walter-Borjans announced that he would “with the other countries insist that the depositors and their heirs get their due”. Is no one to identify which held the money, ultimately the state inherits.

From Banks comes resistance. “The problem described by the countries finance does not exist,” said the General Counsel of the Bank Association, Thorsten Höche, the Funke Media Group. If a bank loses contact with their customers, share it with some research to find him. “Failure of these attempts is, the assets obtained in any case”, Höche said.

If an account holder is not passed, then one must “to monopolize attempt by the state assets in dormant accounts for himself, to the legal conditions for expropriation measure “.

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