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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) Hungarian and Austrian police say the stolen coffin containing the remains of Austrian billionaire Friedrich Karl Flick has been returned to his family.

Budapest Police Chief Gabor Toth says a 41-year-old Hungarian lawyer identified only as Barnabas Sz. is suspected of masterminding the crime and in police custody. Four other suspects are still at large.

The coffin was stolen in November 2008 from a cemetery in Velden, southern Austria, and found last month by private investigators in Budapest.

The thieves had been demanding 6 million euros ($9 million) for the coffin's return.

Flick died in 2006, when Forbes magazine put him among the 100 richest people in the world. He owned Austria's largest private forest holding and led a German industrial empire.

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