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[h=1]Honest toilet cleaner gets to keep $80,000[/h]
AN honest janitor has cleaned up after finding $100,000 of dirty money in a toilet. Chamindu Amarsinghe said on Thursday he was speechless to hear he will get $81,597 of the cash he found at Channel 9’s Docklands headquarters, after no one came forward to claim it.
The other $19,500 will go to the state, a magistrate ruled this week.
Mr Amarsinghe was tidying the ground floor toilets back in August 2011 when he found a sanitary bin flush with $510 and $100 notes.
“There was too much to count - I thought someone was playing a prank on me,” he said.
“But when I touched the notes - all yellow and green - I realised it was real money.”
The stunned worker immediately called his supervisor, and before long police and a plumber pulled more than $100,000 from that Bourke St bathroom - $1200 of it plucked from the pipes.
The suspicious stash sent investigators scrambling.
But police were never able to establish the origin of the cash, and no one ever came forward to claim it.
And so this week, the cleaner-turned-fast food worker, who’s now studying IT in New Zealand, received a phone call to say the haul was his.
“I was speechless,” Mr Amarsinghe said.
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AN honest janitor has cleaned up after finding $100,000 of dirty money in a toilet. Chamindu Amarsinghe said on Thursday he was speechless to hear he will get $81,597 of the cash he found at Channel 9’s Docklands headquarters, after no one came forward to claim it.
The other $19,500 will go to the state, a magistrate ruled this week.
Mr Amarsinghe was tidying the ground floor toilets back in August 2011 when he found a sanitary bin flush with $510 and $100 notes.
“There was too much to count - I thought someone was playing a prank on me,” he said.
“But when I touched the notes - all yellow and green - I realised it was real money.”
The stunned worker immediately called his supervisor, and before long police and a plumber pulled more than $100,000 from that Bourke St bathroom - $1200 of it plucked from the pipes.
The suspicious stash sent investigators scrambling.
But police were never able to establish the origin of the cash, and no one ever came forward to claim it.
And so this week, the cleaner-turned-fast food worker, who’s now studying IT in New Zealand, received a phone call to say the haul was his.
“I was speechless,” Mr Amarsinghe said.
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