Have you also accidentally received a huge amount of money in your bank account? Many times, that amount is transferred to your account by mistake, which the bank takes back after rectifying the mistake after some time. However, many people, showing cunningness, quickly withdraw this money and do not bother to return it. An Indian citizen living in Singapore also did something similar, which cost him a lot.
The Singapore court has sentenced this 47-year-old Indian citizen to 9 weeks in jail. The name of this person is Periyasamy Mathiyazhagan, in whose bank account 25,000 Singapore dollars i.e. approximately Rs 16 lakh were transferred by mistake. He knew that this money was not his, but despite this he did not return it. Periyasamy Mathiyazhagan confessed to the crime of misappropriation of money in the court and told that he had paid off his debts with this money and had sent some part of it to his family in India.
Periyasamy worked for a plumbing and engineering firm from 2021 to 2022. His legal troubles began on April 6, 2023, when a manager at the firm transferred Singapore dollars 25,000 to his bank account, which he believed to be a company account. In this case, the government lawyer told the court that the woman had taken a personal loan from the company and she wanted to repay it. He told that ‘that woman had transferred the money to another bank account by mistake. However, the director of the company told him on the same day that the account did not belong to the company and the company had not received the money.
After this the woman informed Periyasamy’s bank about the wrong transfer and asked to return the money. On April 10, 2023, the bank sent him a letter, stating that the woman had requested to return the cash, but Periyasamy was not ready. Then he lodged a police report on 23 May.
Investigation revealed that Periyasamy had become aware earlier that month that the money had been deposited into his bank account. The SPO said that Periyasamy did not expect to get such a huge amount of cash and he knew that the money did not belong to him. Despite this, he transferred 25,000 Singapore dollars to another bank account in four separate transactions on 11 and 12 May.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: October 14, 2024, 20:26 IST