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Musashi Miyamoto
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Published: Saturday January 8, 2011 MYT 8:40:00 PM
Bank cashier held over missing RM650,000
By SARBAN SINGH
SEREMBAN: A chief cashier of a bank in Seremban 2 has been squirreling away RM650,000 over Christmas but his superiors caught on to his game.
The suspect, believed to have been with the bank for more than 10 years, did not turn up for work since Monday but was arrested when he went to the Seremban 2 police station for questioning on Friday.
Seremban OCPD Asst Comm Saiful Azly Kamaruddin said preliminary investigations showed that the suspect, in his mid-30s, had been taking money from the bank over a few days since Christmas. His superiors only realised the shortfall on Jan 3.
“We are investigating him as he was in charge of the cash. We may also be interviewing some other employees in the bank,” he told The Star.
Saiful said police had raided the suspect’s house near here after a report lodged by the bank’s management. However, the suspect, who is married, was not at home then.
“Family members managed to contact him and he was asked to go to the police station for questioning,” he said, adding that police did not find any of the missing money at the house.
Saiful said the suspect had also told police that he had not turn up for work because he was unwell. “He told us that he has nothing to do with the missing cash. We are still investigating,” he said.
It is understood that bank tellers would hand over their excess cash to the suspect every day and he would then key in the amount into the bank’s system. However, the cash did not make its way to the bank’s vault.
Saiful said the case was being investigated under Section 408 of the Penal Code for criminal breach of trust.
