A 57-year-old resident in Marsiling, had reportedly hidden $14,000 in cash inside his shirt pocket, and his wife then threw his shirt out at the void deck without knowing there was money inside.
The man, Mr Zhuo, spoke to Shin Min Daily News and shared his heartbreak about losing his $14,000.
The incident happened on 30 September at Block 116 Marsiling Rise, and Mr Zhuo’s wife was cleaning their home at the time.
She decided to throw away his old clothes, discarding them inside a rubbish bin at their block’s void deck, without knowing that there were 14 $1,000 notes inside one of the shirts.
Zhuo told SMDN that he started collecting the $1,000 notes after MAS announced that the notes would no longer be printed from 2021 onwards.
He exchanged his money for a few more $1,000 notes after the announcement and hid the money inside the pocket of his old shirt because he was worried about being robbed.
But he had apparently forgotten to tell his wife about the money that he hid.
Zhuo then called the police after the money was discarded along with his shirt, and he also pasted notices with copies of the police report at the void deck in the hopes that someone would step forward with information.
He also added that he thinks his clothes have been taken away by scavengers in the area.