Romanian man returns $100,000 found in secondhand cupboard

BUCHAREST, Romania — A Romanian man was surprised to find 95,000 euros ($107,000) stashed inside a secondhand cupboard he’d bought — and promptly returned the money.

Adela Stanici told The Associated Press Tuesday that her husband, a construction worker, had recently bought the cupboard from a popular online site. Days later, as she was making dinner, husband Samuel yelled: “come and see what I’ve found,” a metal box in the cupboard stuffed with 500-euro notes.

She said the pair counted the money together: “We were shocked. We couldn’t sleep all night.”

“We thought it might be a trap, a setup, and we knew we had to get the money back to where it came from,” the mother of four said by telephone.