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RELATIVES of a tramp are carving up his ESTATE — after he spent years netting more than £1MILLION recycling discarded drinks cans.
Curt Degerman — known as Tin Can Curt — died aged 60 after years living as a vagrant.
It was only after his death relatives discovered he had the fortune tied up in the stock market.
And he also left behind gold bars worth £240,000 and a current account with £5,000 stashed away.
The Swede died of a heart attack after three decades picking up other people's litter.
He would look for old sandwiches and half-eaten burgers in bins but was often seen devouring the financial pages of Swedish newspapers in the local library.
Armed with this knowledge he amassed a fortune as a shrewd investor on the stock market.
His cousin said: "He went to the library every day because he didn't buy newspapers. There he read the Swedish business daily Dagens Industri."
Another family member said: "He knew stocks inside out."
All the money was left in a will to a cousin who visited him in the last years of his life.
But the authorities forced him to share the money with an uncle after declaring he had a legal right to some of the riches.
They settled the dispute at the last minute on the steps of a courthouse on Monday as they were about to do battle over the windfall.
ARTICLE FOUND IN 'THE SUN', DAILY UK NEWSPAPER
