Cab driver returns $3000 to OFW

April 3, 2018

A cab driver returned $3,000 left behind inside his vehicle by an Overseas Filipino Worker who arrived from Dammam, Saudi Arabia Tuesday.

Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) chairman Ed Monreal identified the worker as Virgilio Legaspi, who arrived on board a PAL flight.

Legaspi, said Monreal, took a yellow taxi from NAIA 1 and was transported toa bus station in Sampaloc, Manila.

After Legaspi alighted from the cab, he found out his money placed in a long white envelope had missing.  He immediately took a cab back to NAIA 1.

The driver, Gilbert Punzalan of Golden Star Transport, an accredited transport company in NAIA, said  he noticed a white envelope beside the handbrake of his vehicle.  Thinking it was trash, he  was about to throw it out of his car window when he felt something was inside it.

Punzalan said he saw 30 pieces of $100 bills inside and looked for any identification of the owner.  He discovered the name of the owner was the same as the passenger in his dispatch slip.

Punzalan notified his superiors and rushed to NAIA Terminal 1. Legaspi was grateful after he met Punzalan.

“He is an honest man, " said Legaspi of Punzalan. DMS