In informal conversations with friends, family or acquaintances, it is very likely that a question may arise on occasion. What would you do if a juicy sum of money that does not belong to you “falls from the sky” into your bank account, due to some type of error? Each person will have their own answer but the truth is that the best thing to do is to do everything possible to return it to its rightful owner.
Otherwise, it is quite likely that we will find ourselves immersed in problems that could end up being serious. This is precisely what happened to the manager of a company in Bucharest (Romania). The entire process, whose resolution has recently been made public, began in 2015, when this person received hundreds of thousands of euros by mistake.
The company that the aforementioned manager managed at that time had a contract with a construction company to carry out a small project. At one point, the administration of said construction company had to make a transfer of just over 1,600 euros to the manager, but due to an error in the amount he ended up sending more than 407,000 euros.
When she realized the mistake, the administrator contacted the manager of the supplier company and asked him to return the money. As demonstrated in the subsequent judicial process, he lied and said that he had not received that amount, but that he would be watching in case he received it. The administrator tried to contact him again that same day and in subsequent days but the manager’s phone appeared turned off or out of coverage.
A complaint was later filed and, after investigation, it was shown that the manager had two loans in his name that were canceled just a few days after receiving the significant amount of money in his account. This was just one of the clues that led the judges to convict the manager, who left even more traces of money that did not belong to him.
And part of the amount received was used to purchase two cars from Germany. On the one hand, he got a BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé and, on the other, a BMW X5. After a long judicial process that has lasted for almost seven years, the Timisoara Court of Appeal has announced its final ruling.
It reports that the manager has been sentenced to two years and one month in prison for misappropriation of money and forgery of documents, among other causes. In addition to other financial penalties, he will also lose the two cars he had purchased.
In case anyone had any doubts, it is evident that, in cases like this, the appropriate way to act (not only morally, but also legally) is to return the money to its rightful owner as soon as possible. Below these lines you can see in more detail a BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe like the one purchased by the convicted manager with illicit money.
