Senior citizen in Taiwan gets back RM295,000 hidden in dumped air purifier thanks to honest recycling company worker | Malay Mail

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Senior citizen in Taiwan gets back RM295,000 hidden in dumped air purifier thanks to honest recycling company worker

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 ― A senior citizen in Taiwan who hid NT$2 million in an air purifier and forgot about it, was lucky to get the money back thanks to an honest recyclable company worker who found it.

The worker, identified by his surname Lin, was testing out the air purifier when the machine emitted strange sounds, prompting him to disassemble it and find the cash in two paper bags,Lin then went to a police station in the Sanxia Precinct in New Taipei City accompanied by his employer to handover the money.

The station's chief Chuang Yu-pei said they managed to locate the money's owner in two hours after going through CCTV footage that showed a blue truck unloading the air purifier.Chen reportedly said he had sent the air purifier away to be recycled as his home was undergoing renovations.Chen could not recall when he hid the money in the machine.

 

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