Young man, Joel Julien, mistakenly receives N24 billion state allocation in his account, withdraws N750 million and lavish them on his girlfriend
A man named Joel Julien from Trinidad was arrested for stealing a million dollars from a bank that made a huge mistake.
The bank accidentally put more than N24 billion into his account, and he withdrew about N750 million to spend before he was caught, Jamaican Observer reported.
The man faces a charge of larceny and would have to go to court to explain why he took the money that was not his.
They saw that a system glitch caused 32,347,308.55 dollars to go into Julien’s personal account. The police said that Julien used the money to withdraw cash from ATMs and buy things with his card. He did this between November 18 and December 1 last year.
The bank tried to get the money back from Julien, but he did not cooperate.
They reported him to the Fraud Squad, a special unit of the police that deals with crimes like this. The Fraud Squad officers, led by Senior Superintendent Arlet Groome, investigated the case and arrested Julien.
They also found 600,501 dollars in cash at his home. Julien was charged with larceny. Larceny is a crime of stealing something that belongs to someone else.