British tourist gets €10,500 in cash back after losing it at Madrid airport
Friday, November 27, 2015 @ 12:17 PM
MADRID city council lost property office has managed to return a sum of €10,500 in cash to a British man who lost it in Adolfo Suárez-Barajas airport.
The lucky traveller, named Richard, whose iPad and US$300 in cash lost in Terminal 4 were also returned to him, was notified by email and was so delighted that he flew to Madrid to collect them – and thanked the lost property office profusely, also via email.
Madrid police's finding of these items was part of an operation where an envelope containing €6,000 was left in T4 by representatives of the Diocese of Bergamo, in Italy.
The same department has had some considerable success in reuniting owners with valuables and money they never expected to clap eyes on again.
Recently, the lost property team managed to return a purse containing documents and around US$6,000 left behind in a taxi by a woman from Panamá.
Ordinary residents, taxi drivers, coach companies, the rail board RENFE and the airline governing body AENA drop off abandoned items as a matter of course at the lost-and-found office on the Paseo del Molino, 7.
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