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Mall workers hand in missing millions

by Lynne Roberts on Monday, 28 April 2008
HONEST WORK: A cleaner and security guard handed police a bag containing more than two million dirhams found in the Ajman City Centre.

Two mall workers have been lauded by their employers after handing in a bag containing 2.1 million dirhams ($572,000) they found in Ajman City Centre.

Twenty-one-year old cleaner Reddolla Das came across the bag, containing 400,000 dirhams in cash and 1,700,000 in blank cheques, while cleaning tables at the mall’s food court on April 16.

Das duly turned it over to security guard Hamid Raza Abbasi who handed it to police, and it was later returned to its owner, a Pakistani national.

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Ajman City Centre said it was “incredibly proud and grateful” for the honesty shown by the two men, who were rewarded with 1,500 in vouchers. “The amount discovered it huge, and some people might have been tempted by this,” said general manager Jassim Al Khaja.

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Mall worker's good deed
Posted by Bill on 1 May 2008 at 09:27 UAE time


A good deed is a good deed YES. But the magnitude of the deed should be rewarded. I think 400,000 in cash would be enough for the worker to live like a king for the rest of his life, to give that up is more than most would be willing to do..
Mall worker's good deed
Posted by S Johnson, Adliya, Bahrain on 30 April 2008 at 13:36 UAE time


A good deed is just that - a good deed. No question of quantifying any reward arise. One who found the lost item did the right thing by returning it to the authorities. The case ends there. Period. If individuals with more cash should feel like sharing their good fortune with those who relatively have lesser of that fortune, I do not think anyone should wait till they loose a couple of their millions.
PATHETIC!!
Posted by RAJENDRA ANEJA, DUBAI, UAE on 28 April 2008 at 15:39 UAE time


A mall worker finds 2.1 Mn AED in a Food Court, returns it immediately to the guard, and the money is returned to the owner. The reward is a pathetic AED 1,500 each. A Shame!! The minimum rewards should have been 10% of the amount!! Why are people so stingy, mingy, miserly when it comes to rewarding somebody for good work/actions? It shows that greed yet reigns supreme amongst many people, who are rich!!
Appropriate Rewards
Posted by Quest, Bahrain on 28 April 2008 at 12:02 UAE time


Well done to the cleaners! Such honesty is indeed rare nowadays!
I agreed with Yvonne that appropriate reward for a cleaner for such decency should be cash which is much more useful to him and his family (rather than vouchers).
This kind of (relevant) reward will set great example to others to follow too.
Mall Workers turn in lost cash
Posted by Yvonne Dsouza, Sharjah, UAE on 28 April 2008 at 11:46 UAE time


Instead of giving them 1500 aed vouchers , should have rewarded them wit some cash, which will be of more use to him and his family.

A cleaner and a worker need cash for their family survival, gving them vouchers restricts them to buy only certain goods which may or maynot be of use or need.....

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