A woman employee at a go-go bar has given police a tourist’s shoulder bag she found containing 9,700 Australian dollars, hoping it could be returned to its owner.
Chommanat Sing-oat, 42, works at the Queen Club go-go bar. She handed the bag in to Pattaya police station at 8.06am on Monday, saying she found it in front of the bar in the morning after returning there from having a meal with colleagues.
Inside the bag there was an Australian passport in the name of Shane Steven Mark Gabrielli, aged 48, and the sum of A$9,700 in cash.
Ms Chommanat said she hoped police could find the owner and return the lost bag and its contents, for the sake of the image of her workplace and Pattaya.
Security footage from the bar showed a tall foreign man wearing a black shirt, black shorts and with a tattoo on his left leg sitting in front of the bar for a while, then departing and leaving the bag behind.