Crushing news for HK bank customers - Democratic Underground

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Tue Oct-05-04 10:29 AM
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Crushing news for HK bank customers

By Chris Hogg
BBC correspondent in Hong Kong

A bank in Hong Kong has been explaining to customers why it sent 83 security deposit boxes full of valuables to a scrap yard, where they were destroyed.

DBS Bank says the mistake happened during the refurbishment of one of its branches.

Contractors working over the weekend were supposed to dump empty ones. Instead they took full ones from the bank's vault.

The difficulty now is establishing exactly what was crushed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3715670.stm

This could be a good defense in a lawsuit....."Couldn't pay my taxes your honor, the bank trashed my savings box".....

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