A mobile phone store in Okinawa, which was found to have illegally acquired property, is now protesting its innocence. Lawyer Li Yusheng explains how to handle lost property and the regulations governing the crime of misappropriation of lost property.

A legitimate purchase turned out to be "lost property from Okinawa," prompting the telecommunications store to protest its innocence. | TVBS News reporter Yan Shengfen

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We continued to follow up on this case of a lost mobile phone in Okinawa. The mobile phone store purchased the phone through legitimate channels, but less than a month later, the owner came to the store, insisting that the phone was located in the store and wanted to retrieve it. The owner then clarified that the person who found the phone was on his way to the airport in Okinawa when the driver handed it to him, and he helped to pick it up and take it back to Taiwan to the police station. However, after six months of no one claiming it, he sold it.

Attorney Li Yu-sheng of Fidelity Law Firm stated that the person who found the phone in this case has taken it back to Taiwan and handed it over to the police. It has been treated as lost property. After all procedures were completed and no one claimed it for six months, the relevant lost property procedures have been legally completed. Therefore, the person has acquired ownership of the phone and can dispose of it as they see fit. Thus, the original owner is unlikely to be able to file a charge of misappropriation of lost property against him.

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