Cleaner returns $50k in cash he found :O)

Good to have a heart warmer every now and then..

Well done Essa Khan - a man of honour and integrity..

Essa Khan found the bag of notes stuffed in a safe deposit box while carrying out a routine inspection of a room vacated by a Japanese NGO worker before another guest arrived.

But Mr Khan told The Daily Telegraph he was simply doing his job.

"I have a responsibility as a human being, as a Pakistani, a Muslim," he said on Sunday. "I never thought about keeping the money."

Mr Khan, 50, has worked for the past 20 years at the Gilgit Serena Hotel, which stands amid dramatic scenery at the foot of the Karakoram mountains, in northern Pakistan.

Hotel staff managed to track down the guest, who works for the Japan International Co-operation Agency, and return the money, which was intended to fund a feasibility study into tourism projects in northern Pakistan.

Rashid Uddin, the hotel's general manager, said the Japanese man, who has not been named, was embarrassed to learn he had lost the cash.

"Even after three days, he had no clue that he had left the money," Mr Uddin said by telephone from Gilgit.

"He came in the next day, and it was easy to see from the look on his face just how relieved he was."

The hotel has given Mr Khan a 10,000-rupee reward for his honesty.

But his general manager said his actions deserved wider recognition.

"In these economic conditions, and in a region of poverty, we should be very, very proud of people like this," said Mr Uddin.

Source: Daily Telegraph