Overview
- After a family argument in Moscow, a seven-year-old threw her mother's bag holding $88,000 in U.S. bills out of an apartment window.
- Teenagers found the scattered cash in the Meshchansky district and, according to police-cited reports, kept most of it and burned some notes.
- Investigators say roughly $83,000 has been recovered and about $5,000 is missing, and the money is now in police custody.
- Authorities say the recovered funds will go back to the owner once they finish the inquiry into how the cash was handled.
- Russian reports differ on the aftermath, and a lawyer told Komsomolskaya Pravda that failing to report such a find can be a crime with severe prison terms.