Many might know that, in Japan, if you report found items to police and the owner doesn’t show up for 3 months, the ownership of the item passes to the founder. Even if the owner shows up, the founder has the right to demand 謝礼 (gift) of 5 ~ 20% of the item’s value according to the law.
What I found interesting in this case is that multiple parties showed up and claimed they “might” be the owner, but the police still gave it to the founder.
It makes one wonder:
- Who loses 18,000,000 yen of cash (~114k USD) and was not sure about it?
- Are any of the claimed owner legit and he/she just wasn’t able to prove it to the police?
- Do people lose cash so often that it happens to multiple parties at the same time?
- Or are the other parties making false claims? In that case they are pretty bold since they have to make them to the police.
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