A 58-year-old man found a purse with 720 euros and… 15 credit cards which – as it was later revealed – amounted to deposits exceeding 3 million euros, on a bench near the Port Authority of Rio on Friday morning.

According to a report in the “Peloponnisos” newspaper, the 58-year-old found a phone number inside the purse, which he called, finding out that the man on the other end of the phone line was also the person who had lost it. Therefore, the 58-year-old did not need to contact the Police and made an appointment to deliver it directly.

At the meeting he found that he had in front of him a well-known businessman from Athens, who was going to travel from the Port of Patras to the Ionian island, for the three days of the Holy Spirit, together with his wife and two children.

The businessman expressed his gratitude to the 58-year-old, “rewarding” with the 720 euros that were in the purse and another 300 euros that he took out of his pocket.

The paternal worker accepted, with relief, the euretras and as he told his friends… “it was… a gift from God”, since the money will be used to cover the installments of a loan of 15,000 euros, with which he has bought a house of 45 sq.m. ., for his three-member family and “forces” himself to pay back…