Bonn - Has a Postbank unsuspecting grannies directly ripped off at the bank counter? A 37-year-old former store manager was sitting about six times the fraud and theft in the dock.
Postbank branch in Endenich: Here are many elderly people to do their financial transactions at the counter. Once an employee with a bold stitch in the assets of the elderly, while enriching the very elderly nasty exploited? The prosecutor is convinced and has accused the employees.
February 2007: A 92-year-old lady would get $ 1,000 from the account. Postbank Staff Peter F. (name changed) gave the old woman the reader. It confirms the transaction by entering their personal identification. The charge of the investigators: Peter F. is typed in 2000 instead of 1000 euros as a withdrawal amount, have put the rest into their own pockets. The old woman did not have noticed that it deducts twice the amount.
Another customer said to have facilitated the employee with this stitch as much as 1400 euros. Postbank sent mystery shoppers into the store Endenicher. They bought on different days, copy paper, stamps. Peter F. is said to have the money later withdrawn from the cash register and not recorded.
Peter F. lost his job, but received 24,000 euros compensation. When Labor was in the process, the council fought on his side: "There is no room for manipulation at the counter. Each customer could claim that he had received only half. "
Before the criminal judge of the 37-year-old denied everything: "I had worked properly, not the acts committed. The customer must disbursed "yes" to confirm. I have no explanation for everything. "He said, also software problems could be cause for the inconsistencies.
The court terminated the proceedings. But the postal workers got a delicate fine of 5,000 euros. A means to attack the lawyers, if they are convinced of guilt, but can not prove this.
