An unusual case was recorded in a Chilean company that mistakenly paid 180,000 euros (approximately 786 million pesos) to an employee and he resigned and absconded with the money.
The employee worked as a dispatch assistant for the Food Industrial Consortium and on May 30, by mistake, received more than 165 million Chilean pesos on his payroll, but his real salary was 570 euros (2 million and average weight approximately).
He was informed and clarified that this money did not correspond to the payment of any service
Apparently, the man notified the deputy manager of the company about an excessive value in his salary, so the executive consulted the human resources area and they confirmed that 165,398,851 Chilean pesos had been transferred to his checking account by mistake.
The company, realizing this, asked the man to go to his bank and return the money on behalf of the Consortium. “He was informed and clarified that this money did not correspond to the payment of any service,” the company said in the complaint filed against the employee.
Although the man promised to go to the bank the next day to return the money, he did not go. When contacted by phone around 11 in the morning, he told the company that he had fallen asleep and promised to go to the bank again.
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However, after that call, the company did not hear from the man again until June 2, when a lawyer arrived at the company premises with a voluntary resignation letter on behalf of the employee.
After knowing this letter, the Consortium initiated legal action against the man for “misappropriation” of the money that was deposited by mistake.
The company, although it recognizes its mistake, assures that this does not give the man the right to keep the money and insists that he must return it.
Can you keep the money?
According to HelpMyCash, a portal specialized in personal finances, it ensures that in this type of case “legally nothing would prevent him from spending the money”, however, he explains that if the company or person who made the transfer by mistake takes him to court, “the recipient of that transfer has everything to lose”.
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