Flyboy Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 http://derstandard.at/1332323945287/Causa-Stradivari-Hypo-Kaernten-verlor-Geigen-an-Notenbank Their bad luck; The Austrian National Bank asserts that they bought the instruments from a regular violin dealer (M.), and is therefore rightful owner. How likely is the OeNB to prevail on this assertion? If the dealer is found guilty of fraud/embezzlement/conversion on these eight instruments in question, seems to me OeNB doesn't have much of a leg to stand on regarding being rightful owners, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobsaunders Posted March 27, 2012 Report Share Posted March 27, 2012 First there were plenty of rightful owners and no violins, now there are violins with multiple rightful owners. I`m pretty glad that I don`t have to interpret paragraph 367 of the Allgemein Burgerliche Gezetzbuch and suppose one should have a good reason to hold somebody in custody for over a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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