The owner of a Canadian precious-metals company says his Big Apple-based son-in-law stole 10 Swiss gold ingots, worth $150,000, from a company safe deposit box.
Sprott Money founder Eric Sprott is suing Neal Cabot Ohm, a Midtown commercial real-estate broker, for “willful misconduct” by allegedly sneaking into his daughter’s HSBC bank box after she filed for divorce.
According to the Manhattan federal suit filed Wednesday, Sprott’s daughter, Larissa, the company president, set up the box in April 2011, after buying the ingots for the company.
Eric Sprott alleges Ohm accessed the box in August 2015, two months after the couple split, and moved the gold to an undisclosed location, claiming the ingots are a gift to him. In addition to the return of the gold, Sprott is suing for unspecified damages.