Taxi driver returns B420,000 to passenger

A taxi driver has returned more than 400,000 baht in cash to a shop owner who left a plastic bag containing the cash and clothing in his cab.

Montri Wongsakhot, 39, returned the bag containing lace cloth and 420,000-baht cash to Wanida Khongchanacharoenchai, 56, owner of a dress shop in Bangkok’s Samphanthawong district, at Chakkrawat police station on Friday, Thai media reported.

Mr Montri said he immediately contacted Jor Sor 100 traffic radio station to help find the owner of the bag after he found a large amount of the cash inside the bag. He said he did not take it because it was not his. Shortly later, police contacted the radio station.

Taxi driver Montri Wongsakhol , (left) returns money to Wanida Khongchanacharoenchai, a passenger who left the cash in his cab, at Chakkrawat police station on Friday. (@js100 twitter)

On Friday, Ms Wanida filed a complaint with Chakkrawat police that she had left the bag containing the cash in the back seat of a taxi she had taken from Samphanthawong district office on Charoen Krung Road to Krungthai Bank near Ratchawong pier at around 11am on that day.

She said the money would be used to pay her life insurance premiums at a bank but she could not remember the licence plate number of the taxi.

The happy shop owner thanked the driver and gave him a cash reward of 10,000 baht.