A Singaporean taxi driver has been heralded as a hero after he returned S$1.1 million (US$900,000) in cash to a vacationing Thai couple who left the money in his cab.
Sia Ka Tian, 70, was shocked to find the money in a black paper bag on the back seat on Monday after he dropped the couple off at a shopping centre.
“When I saw the money, I thought, trouble is here. I was sure there was at least S$200,000 in the bag,” the quoted the 31-year veteran in the taxi business as saying.
But when he brought the money to transport company ComfortDelGro’s lost-and-found office, his stunned colleagues counted S$1.1 million in thousand-dollar bills.
“The money is unimportant to me. It doesn’t belong to me, so how can I use it?” he told the newspaper.
The Thai couple reported the loss to the transport company and Sia was waiting for them when they arrived to claim the money.
