Dubai - Some tourists had forgotten money at the cafe.
Published: Tue 22 May 2018, 2:05 PM
Updated: Tue 22 May 2018, 6:46 PM
A Nepalese employee, Miran Karki, who works in Starbucks, was honoured by the Dubai Police after he returned a bag containing $118,000 (Dh434,000) and documents belonging to a tourist.
When Miran found the bag containing the cash, passports, IDs and banks cards on the ground floor of the café's branch at Mall of Emirates, he immediately called the security officials and mangers who informed Al Barsha police station. The cops managed to identify the person who left it there and his whereabouts. It was found that the man was in Dubai on a visit visa.
Miran spotted the bag which had $118,000 cash and some passports in it. He handed it over to the Al Barsha police station, said Colonel Aqeel Muhammad Ahli, deputy director of Dubai, CID.
He said that the police honoured the employee to acknowledge his honesty. It comes in line with the Dubai Police's keenness to strengthen the concept of community partnership, he added.