Bank staff who conned nine of RM730,000
Published on: Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Kota Kinabalu: A senior bank staff described as a good, decent and respectable employee cheated nine clients of nearly RM730,000 they had invested through him from way back as 2009.His thieving ways only came to light when the bank customers, five men and four women, who had invested between RM20,000 and RM237,440, went to the bank to collect their returns upon the maturity of their investment schemes this year.Bank officials were left stumped when they discovered that their colleague who had worked for over 10 years with them had smeared the financial institution by cheating the customers of RM727,489.39.
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The victims comprising professional people, senior citizens and a housewife, aged between 23 and 59, had invested in seven different trust fund investment schemes, via the said staff between 2009 and 2013.One 55-year-old Chinese housewife had invested RM237,440 while the lowest sum of RM20,000 was invested by a 51-year-old woman.To their utter shock and disbelief, they were told by bank officials that there were no records of their money being invested in the bank's schemes.All nine, however, had receipts as proof of their transactions, thus prompting the bank to advise them to lodge police reports here.
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City Police Chief ACP M. Chandra said nine reports were lodged and another five reports by the bank in relation to the case."The staff in question has been missing since May this year," he said, urging him to surrender to facilitate police investigation under Section 420 of the Penal Code for cheating.
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"It was learnt that he was the least expected by the bank to be involved in such case as he is a good, decent and respectable employee."The suspect worked at the counter in the bank and offered the seven investment schemes to potential customers and after agreements were reached, receipts of the transactions were issued as proof that they have invested their money," he said.Chandra said in this instance, however, all the money invested by the nine customers were taken by the suspect though it is still uncertain as to how he had moved the money without raising any suspicion.To a question, he said they believed the suspect is not in Sabah as even his family does not know his whereabouts.Chandra also believed others may have also been cheated by the suspect and advised them to come forward to assist in police investigation.Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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