A dying grandmother took revenge on her "grasping" heirs by shredding euro notes worth nearly NZD$1.6 million with a pair of kitchen scissors shortly before she passed away.
The destroyed 100 and 500 euro bills adding up to 950,000 euros, withdrawn in the 85-year-old's last weeks, were found next to the bed where she died in a luxury retirement home in Vienna.
The Austrian national bank usually only replaces notes that are 50 per cent intact, not those "wantonly destroyed".
But in this case, it said, it would be willing to supply new notes to the relatives with whom the woman fell out for being "grasping" before her death.
"If her plan was that none of her heirs should get (her life savings), then this plan failed," said a bank official.
