An Austrian methodically tore 85 years nearly a million euros in bills before dying in order to harm his heirs, said Thursday a judicial source.
Tickets torn 100 and 500 euros, for a total of 950,000 euros, charters discovered after the death of the octogenarian in the nursing home to which he had been transferred five days earlier.
The elderly also destroyed their passbooks, according to information of the newspaper Kurier confirmed by prosecutors in the town of Wiener Neustadt, 45 km from Vienna.
Prosecutors learned of the facts but not opened a judicial inquiry because not "a criminal", told AFP the prosecutor Erich Habitzl.
However, the revenge of the old can be cut off as the Central Bank of Austria told the daily Kurier that she was willing to replace banknotes destroyed.