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Nguyen Van Huan, 46, discovered the bag on Jan. 23 while driving along an expressway in Ninh Binh Province. He later worked with police to track down the owner and hand the money back.

Huan, who lives in Tien Luc Commune in Bac Ninh, said he was traveling to Hanoi with two companions around noon when he noticed a white sack lying in the middle of the road just past the Liem Tuyen toll station. After stopping to retrieve it, he found 20 neatly packed bundles of VND50,000 notes inside.

He immediately contacted the expressway traffic police and asked to see footage from CCTV cameras to see which vehicle had dropped it.

The sack of cash found by Huan on the Hanoi – Ninh Binh Expressway. Photo courtesy of Huan

One camera had captured a white sack falling from a pickup truck with the license plate 29C-998.83 at the expressway entrance on Jan. 23.

Meanwhile, Duong Thuy Van of Me Linh District, Hanoi, posted in traffic- social media groups that she was looking for a sack of cash she had withdrawn from a bank and lost from the bed of her pickup truck while passing through the area.

Nguyen Van Huan (center) hands over the VND1 billion cash to Van and her husband in northern Bac Ninh Province, Jan. 23, 2026. Photo courtesy of Huan

After confirming that the license plate and timelines matched, Huan contacted Van and asked her to come to his hometown. At 5 p.m. she came, and he returned the money to her in the presence of local authorities.

“It was someone else’s hard-earned money, and so I had to return it,” he said merely. In appreciation, Van gave gifts to Huan’s family and VND5 million in cash.