Posted on 05/05/2006 9:28:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese waste disposal company that found almost 275,000 dollars in a consignment of industrial waste can keep the money, police said after six months of investigations failed to find the owner.
"The finder gets the money half a year later if it is unknown who lost it. This general rule applies to this case," said an official at Tokorozawa Police Station, north of Tokyo.
A company employee found the bundles of yen notes when he was manually separating rubbish in October. The money totaled 31 million yen (274,000 dollars) and the company reported it to police.
Local media said six people had come forward to claim the money, saying "it may be cash stolen from my house" or "it may be money my divorced wife took away with her", but none of them could prove it was theirs.
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