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Staff at the Ritz Paris must surely be sighing in relief after a ‘lost’ diamond ring was found in a vacuum cleaner after a freaked-out Malaysian guest reported it stolen.

Le Parisien newspaper reported Sunday that a Malaysian hotel guest filed a police complaint on Friday alleging that her diamond ring vanished from her room.

The guest, described only as a Malaysian businesswoman, told police that she had left the ring on a table on Friday while she went window shopping in the city for a few hours. When she returned to the room, the ring was gone, she said.

The hotel dispelled rumours of a targeted heist or an opportunistic theft, despite the theories that had circulated online.

The ring is said to be worth $800 000 (R15 million), and sparked a frantic search among the staff of the ultra-luxurious Parisian hotel. The hotel did not release details about the guest, but confirmed that after a panicked search, the ring was found “in a vacuum cleaner bag.”

The guest is said to be ‘happy at the news.’ Surely not as happy as the cleaning staff at the hotel.

It would not have been the first time the famed Place Vendôme hotel has been targeted. In 2018, an anonymous member of the Saudi royal family claimed the theft of jewellery worth approximately €800,000 (R16 million) from her suite, and months before, five armed men stole gems worth more than €4 million (R8 million) from display windows within the hotel.

We’re glad the lady found her ring, but who leaves a R15 million diamond ring ‘on the table’ while they go shopping?

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[source:guardian]