Picked up billions of dong in a garbage factory

This is not the first time lost money has been found in a landfill in Japan, although this time the amount is unusually large.

According to the Telegraph, the 63-year-old man, whose identity was not disclosed, said he picked up a dream amount of money for many people, at a waste treatment plant in the town of Numata.

Police received a report from the man and treated it as a case of lost property, Japanese newspaper Mainichi reported.

Local authorities have now released information about the incident, calling on any residents who think they have lost money to come to the police station to report. Details of the container containing the "huge" amount of money have not been disclosed, to avoid the possibility of an impersonator claiming the money.

This is not the first time lost money has been found in a landfill in Japan, although this time the amount is unusually large.

Finding money in garbage plants is not uncommon in Japan.

In late 2012, an amount of money worth 10 million yen (about 2 billion VND) was crushed by machines in a waste treatment plant in Hiroshima.

Police later recovered 2,300 pieces of banknotes and concluded that the money was hidden in household items and the owner had forgotten about it.

A few years ago, employees at a garbage plant in Gifu Prefecture, Japan also found 6.85 million yen in deliberately torn up bills and coins.

Under Japanese law, anyone who finds the money and turns it in to the police will be entitled to 5% to 20% of the total amount found, if the owner comes forward to claim it.

In case no one comes forward to claim it within three months, the finder will keep the entire amount.

According to Kienthuc.net.vn