Prosecutors say they are still to identify who felt flush enough to literally pour money down the drain. 
 
 Investigators told the Tribune de Genève newspaper they suspect it may have belonged "to Spanish women who placed it in a safe-deposit box several years ago". 
 
 Police have not disclosed the women’s identities and are unsure why they would have wanted to dispose of it. Detectives are attempting to determine whether it was the proceeds of crime or stolen. 
 
 A lawyer acting for the women went to police headquarters last month, where he was questioned but provided little information. 
 
 He handed over money to pay for repairs to the toilets of the bank and the restaurants, which had to spend thousands of euros getting them unclogged. 
 
 But he offered no explanation about why money belonging to his clients, who were seen on CCTV footage at the bank a few months ago, might have ended up in the toilet. ||||| If someone tells you they flushed more than a hundred grand down the toilet, chances are they're referring figuratively to a bad investment, or an outrageous extravagance. 
 
 But in Switzerland, prosecutors have opened an investigation into why two people literally tried to cram about 100,000 euros ($120,000) in 500 euro notes down toilets in three Geneva restaurants and an office of banking giant UBS. 
 
 The notes "had probably been cut with scissors", Geneva prosecution spokesman Vincent Derouand told AFP, confirming the May incident first reported by the Tribune de Geneve. 
 
 Derouand said the investigation would first focus on whether the cash was connected to any illegal activity because destroying -- or attempting to flush -- bank notes is not a crime in Switzerland. 
 
 Police were alerted to the case after the restaurants complained that their toilets had been clogged, the spokesman said. 
 
 Later, "a lawyer representing the people who flushed the notes came by and compensated them" for the cost of plumbing repairs, Derouand said. 
 
 The UBS branch involved is in central Geneva and hosts a wealth management office of Switzerland's largest bank, Geneva prosecutors said. 
 
 Notes were discovered in toilets near the area where the bank has vaults, Derouand said. 
 
 UBS declined to comment on the story. 
 
 Derouand did not discuss the identity of the suspects, but the paper said they were two Spanish women who had stashed the money in a safe.
– Some $120,000 has gone down the drain in Switzerland—literally. Prosecutors say 500-euro bank notes were found stuffed in a toilet serving a vault containing safe deposit boxes at Geneva's USB bank back in May, per Bloomberg. A few days later, per Reuters, 500-euro notes, which "had probably been cut with scissors," were found clogging toilets at three nearby restaurants, Vincent Derouand of the prosecutor's office tells AFP, via the Local. "We couldn't stop laughing," says an employee at a pizzeria where a bathroom flooded as a result of bills being stuffed in a toilet and sink, per the Telegraph. "Tax evasion is the most likely theory," adds the manager of a nearby cafe. Derouand says a lawyer representing the two people apparently responsible—local media describe them as two Spanish women—compensated the restaurants for thousands of dollars in plumbing repairs, prompting the withdrawal of a complaint. Unlike in the US, there is no law against destroying bank notes in Switzerland, but police are trying to trace the money anyway. "We're trying to find out where the notes came from and whether a crime has been committed," Derouand tells the BBC. "Clearly it's very surprising." Adds a second rep for the prosecutor's office, per Bloomberg: "There must be something behind this story." (A student allegedly burned money in front of a homeless man.)