An Iranian man who was going through trash found a bag containing gold and dollars and struggled to find its owner in order to return it to him, a daily reported on Monday.
“My parents taught me that you have to return property belonging to others when you find it
,” the honest resident of Aligoudarz, a town in western Iran, explained to the Etemad newspaper.
On March 22, this 52-year-old man, not rolling in gold, discovered the small fortune while searching trash dumped in the streets.
“When I started sorting the trash, I realized that inside a bag there was gold and dollars”
with an estimated value of 20 billion rials (around 35,000 euros) , he said.
“I kept this gold and these dollars for a few days, but I could not keep them for myself”
because of the principles of honesty instilled by his parents, he added.
He claims to have found the owner of the bag thanks to a bank card which was inside. The gold and dollars belonged to a 50-year-old woman whose grandson had thrown the bag away thinking it contained trash.