It’s a check for $2 million, issued to a man with a California driver’s license. And it was found in a subway car in Madrid, police say.
“We have his name. We’re trying to locate this person,” a National Police spokesman in Madrid told CNN on Thursday.
“We won’t just hand it over. We have to verify that the origin of the money is not illicit,” said the spokesman, who by custom is not identified.
The check was issued by Bank of America, and it’s post-dated to January 2014, the spokesman said.
A maintenance worker for Madrid’s Metro, or subway system, found it Wednesday. A train running on line 5, which roughly traverses the capital from east to west, reported a problem with doors that wouldn’t fully close at the Diego de Leon station, CNN informs.
