Wallet

Although he did not wish to receive any reward, Sinisa Dabic was given 50 euros from the owner, who got back his lost bag that contained a laptop, and a wallet with EUR 40,000 in it.

Dabic, whom his colleagues describe as "an exemplary worker," told Prva TV that he found the black bag in the parking lot, and that his first thought was to call the police.

The latest album of the Icelandic singer, Bjork, will be sold for cryptocurrency, the bitcoin.com site reported.

Police in Halkidiki, northern Greece, seized more than 4,500 contraband goods in a crackdown at tourist resorts in the area between August 7 and 11, according to a police statement released on Saturday.

The raids led to the arrest of eight people believed to have been touting the goods - seven Bangladeshi nationals and a Senegalese man.

Police in Serres, northern Greece, on Thursday sang the praises of a middle-school student who handed in a wallet containing nearly 3,400 euros.

Police described the young girl as a "role model" and said that when she was informed she could keep the money if the wallet's owner could not be traced, she asked that it be donated to a charity.

Police in Thessaloniki on Saturday arrested three suspected members of a mugging racket that operated on city buses, exploiting the cramped conditions during rush hour to snatch wallets and other valuables.

Members of the racket are believed to have carried out 140 muggings in April alone.

Bidders attending an auction held at the 19th-century Athenee Palace Hotel in Bucharest landmark stumped up a total of 50,000 euro on buying Communist memorabilia, including the cap and Communist Party membership card of the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

Trustworthy Tokyo-ites handed in $28 million of lost cash last year, police said on Feb. 15, with three quarters of it returned to its rightful owner, in the latest example of Japan's startling honesty.
      

A woman has been arrested in Thessaloniki on suspicion of stealing a cab driver’s wallet while in his taxi, police said on Tuesday.

The woman is alleged to have taken the wallet while the cabbie stepped out of the vehicle for a brief moment.

She then used his cash card to obtain 500 euros from an ATM.

The incident occurred on May 14.