AKIPRESS.COM - The New York City woman who lost a bag containing $10,000 on the subway has been reunited with the cash, thanks to the good Samaritan who brought the money to a police station, CBS New York reported.

A young woman named Aya was heading back to her native Kazakhstan to visit her family and had $10,000 in an envelope in her purse when she accidentally left it on a subway platform, she told reporters Thursday. She said she had the money because it's easier to take out cash here than in Kazakhstan, and she wanted to use it to buy gifts for her family.

She never thought she'd get the money back.

But when Richard Taverna, a retiree from the Upper West Side, found the purse and envelope at the West 66th Street and Broadway station last month, he brought it to the 20th Precinct station the next morning.