Jacket with 30,000 euros at Dubai Airport among lost items in UAE in 2025
An abandoned black jacket at Dubai International Airport contained €30,570 (Dh121,974) in cash and was given to the police in 2023.
Male supervisor, 39, entered the airport police department at 5.56pm on December 31, 2025 with the jacket and released cash and a handful of loose coins. The report was recorded and later at one point, it received a decision of closure. At that point, no one stepped forward to take it.
That jacket is merely one of the many dozens of thousands of articles processed by UAE authorities as far back as 2025.
Data from the Ministry of Interior showed that authorities received 22,467 lost item reports and 36,403 found item reports in one year.
As for the type of items lost, identity cards top the ranks (21,076) where 93.8 per cent out of all cases are related to lost ID's. This was followed by passport data, with 1,126 reports in second place, then handheld phones and licence plates (both 19) and laptops (11).
Cash on top: The first found serial. So under just one description alone, there were a staggering 3,363 reports filed for found money and when all versions of cash-related entries are collated this figure swells to 8,726.
In a close second was wallets (1,208), followed by personal ID cards (1,168), resident IDs (724), and rings (666).
A total of 36,403 found items were logged in the UAE vicinity, with a whopping 36,076 (99.1 per cent) found in Dubai alone. The bulk were made up of Dubai International Airport, appearing in 34,845 cases.
December was the busiest month, when 2,806 lost reports and another 3,680 reports of items found were filed, coinciding with the height of the winter tourist season.
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