PARIS: It was a diamond ring worth RM3.7mil and when it disappeared from a Paris hotel room, the distraught guest – a Malaysian businesswoman – immediately lodged a police report.
Two days later, it popped up – in a vacuum cleaner bag, no less.
According to UK’s The Guardian newspaper, the Malaysian guest of the Ritz Paris hotel here had reported the missing ring to police.
She said she had left the ring on the bedside table before going shopping in the city for a few hours last Friday.
Upon returning to the room around 11.30am, she realised that the ring had gone, the daily said.
It reported that security at the hotel later found the ring inside a vacuum cleaner bag.
“Two days after a Malaysian guest at the hotel reported the missing diamond ring to police, the hotel proffered an answer, albeit less exciting than many of the theories that had circulated online.
“The hotel said security had found the ring in the bag of a vacuum cleaner,” the daily reported.
In a response, the hotel told French daily Le Parisien that its client was happy with the find but the newspaper hinted that the admission had not been enough to dispel all doubts about exactly what had transpired.
“We would like to thank the staff at the Ritz Paris, who mobilised for this search, and who work each day with integrity and professionalism,” the hotel said.
The Guardian also reported that it was not the first time the celebrated hotel in Place Vendôme had been hit.
An unnamed member of the Saudi royal family reported the theft of jewellery worth some €800,000 (RM4mil) from her suite in 2018, and months earlier five armed men made off with jewels worth more than €4mil (RM20mil) from display windows inside the hotel.
