Pham Huu/Thanh Nien News
The Japanese central bank has agreed to replace all the damaged money that a Vietnamese scrap vendor accidentally found in a speaker sold to her as junk.
Vietnamese woman in Vietnam bought a speaker with nearly $40,000 US dollars hidden inside in Japanese bank notes. Photo: STR/AFP/GettyImages)
Huynh Thi Anh Hong, 36, will get more than one million Japanese yen (US $8,340) for the damaged notes from the Bank of Japan. Before that, Hong changed 400 intact notes worth around 4 million yen and received a total $31,000 dollars.
Hong found more than five million yen in a small wooden box hidden inside a speaker that she had bought from a stranger in late 2013 for less than $5. She kept the speaker and broke it open in March 2014 to recycle the metal.
The police confiscated the money and issued a note asking the owner to come and claim the money on April 28, 2014.
Soon before the deadline, a woman came to the police and claimed the money belonged to her South African husband. But the police investigated and then rejected the claim.
Hong was awarded all of the money. Lucky buy.
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