Company accidentally pays employee 300 times his wages in a major bank blunder – and now he’s refusing to give it back
A MAN was mistakenly overpaid more than 300 times his wages in a major banking blunder and then refused to give it back.
The unnamed bloke, from Somogy County in Hungary, received a whopping £80,000 in error for his short stint at the company.
He had been working for a firm in the nearby city of Kaposvár, but his employment was terminated while he was still in the trial period.
Nevertheless, the employee was set to receive a small pay packet for the shifts he had completed.
The bungling business was meant to cough up just 92,549 forints (£205) for his hard work.
But because the man had provided an Austrian bank account to wire the funds into, the money had to be paid in the local currency, euros.
But in an epic banking fail, the sum was not converted from the Hungarian forints – and they sent him €92,549 euros instead.
Although the former employee may have thought it was his lucky day, his bubble soon burst when the company realised the error.
The firm got in touch with their ousted worker and asked him to return the huge amount of cash that had accidentally been sent.
But he reportedly claimed he no longer had access to the Austrian bank account, insisting he was unable to acquire any funds.
However, his brief taste of wealth soon came to an abrupt end when police got involved in the case.
Cops discovered that the man had withdrawn €15,500 (£13,400) in cash from the supposedly impenetrable bank account at an ATM in the south of the country.
He then allegedly transferred the finances into another bank account in an attempt to stash some of the money away.
Police worked alongside the Kaposvár District Prosecutor’s Office to freeze the bank accounts and recover the money.
Reports claim officials have clawed back €72,000 so far and they hope to track down the rest of the funds that were sent mistakenly.
The ex-employee has been charged with unlawful appropriation and is set to receive a hefty fine, according to Hvg.hu.
He is also expected to have to fork out for compensation to the firm.
We previously told how a labourer who was mistakenly overpaid by £44,000 splashed the cash on cocaine and booze binges.
And a woman who received an extra £21,000 in her wages from the NHS spent the lot – and wasn’t made to pay it back.