COFFIN OF A NAZI BILLIONARE STOLEN

The body of an Austrian billionaire, whose family fortune was built on Nazi slave labour, has been stolen from a graveyard.

Grave robbers broke into the mausoleum and removed the 18st coffin
Police are hunting for the corpse of controversial industrialist Friedrich Karl Flick after a gang of graverobbers stole it from the the family tomb - in what could be an attempt to extort money from his widow.
The robbers prised the 18 stone oak coffin from the mausoleum at the cemetery at Velden am Woerthersee in southern Austria where the 79-year-old was laid to rest in 2006.
Flick, who lived in fear of kidnap attempts, inherited a huge part of the family business when his father died in 1972.
The empire had made massive use of concentration camp labourers in their factories, but despite their Nazi legacy, the Flick family always refused to pay compensation to war-time victims, even though Flick had major interest in companies such as Daimler-Benz.
The grave robbers struck last weekend but the theft was only discovered on Wednesday.
A stonemason hired by the family to repair his gravestone which had been damaged by vandals noticed the marble slab inside the mausoleum had been moved.
Gottlieb Tuerk, of the police in Carinthia, said: "The background to this remains murky at present."
Police estimate it would have taken at least six men to disinter the remains of the industrialist who, at the time of his death, was the wealthiest person living in Austria.
His widow Ingrid Flick, his third wife, inherited an estimated £4bn.
She and his children are now under police guard.
Flick hired security throughout his life to guard his family but his brother and sister-in-law were kidnapped in 1991.
The kidnapper was caught when the £3.5m ransom was handed over by undercover police.