‘Dirty’ money to be donated to quake victims
Published: October 27, 2004
More than $300 000 worth of cash found in the garbage near Tokyo will be donated to victims of a powerful earthquake that rocked northern Japan at the weekend, an official said on Tuesday.
The ¥33,8-million in cash was discovered as it was about to be crushed in a garbage processing facility in Gyoda city near the capital last December, a municipal official said.
It spent six months awaiting its rightful owner before being handed over to city authorities in June, who decided to donate it to quake victims.
Some people claimed the cash during its six-month retention period by local police but none was found to be the real owner.
Both the government and private groups are offering food and supplies to the tens of thousands of people affected by the earthquake, Japan’s worst in nearly a decade.
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