OFW In Qatar Returns P600K Cash, P2.4M Check He Found

An Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) in Qatar returned a pouch containing a cellphone, cash, and check amounting to P3 million to its owner after finding it on a road.

Jayson Castillo

Jayson Castillo, who works as receptionist at a fitness center, found the black leather pouch on his way to work on a busy roundabout in Al Khor on Tuesday morning. Inside the bag was an iPhone, 50,000 Qatari dinar (P600,000) cash and a check worth QAR 200,000 (P2,400,000).

The 24-year-old nursing graduate, who hails from Pangasinan, immediately thought that the right thing to do was to return them to its owner. But since he's new in Qatar - he arrived just two months ago -, he called his friend, an OFW who has been in Qatar for 12 years, to ask for advice on how to go about in returning the loot he found. His friend told him to turn over the pouch to the nearest police station.

The police were able to contact the Qatari owner of the bag, who said said the money was to be used as salary payments to the employees of an establishment. The police authorities and the owner himself thanked Castillo for returning the pouch and its contents.

Castillo credits his parents for the good deed, saying that they taught him to stay honest despite being poor.

"You feel good when you have done something like this," he told the Gulf Times.