Police to investigate allegedly money missing from bank account

Customers doing transaction at a branch of VPBank. The police is investigating allegedly money missing from the bank's account.- Photo vpbank.vn

According to an official letter of the People's Committee of HCM City sent to the bank and the city police, it has also proposed that the bank's branch support the city police in investigating this case, while the committee and the bank would co-operate in removing any difficulties during the investigation.

The Division of Economic Crimes and Management Positions Investigation (PC46) of HCM City police has been investigating the case.

Meanwhile, the Viet Nam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank (VPBank) said on its website on August 24 that it would co-operate with the police to clarify the case surrounding a customer's complaint of the loss.

Earlier, Tran Thi Thanh Xuan, who is the VPBank customer and also legal representative of Quang Huan Company, said that a fake seal and signature of Quang Huan Company's account holder were created by the company's accountant, Pham Van Trinh, and some other persons to withdraw money from the company's account at VP Bank, according to VPBank deputy general director Nguyen Thanh Long.

Xuan opened the company's account at VPBank in March 2015 for trading activities, and the account had VND26 billion.

However, in July 2015, when Xuan came to the bank to withdraw some money she found that the money had disappeared and the account had only a few hundred thousand Vietnamese dong.

After the bank inspected its statements, it found that a staff member of VPBank, Xuan's husband and an accountant of Quang Huan Company had withdrawn and transferred the money through a cheque from Quang Huan Company's account to the company of the accountant's wife.

Xuan also said all transactions were not reported by the bank's SMS to her phone though she had registered services on reporting changes of account at the bank by SMS.

Therefore, in September 2015, Xuan had sent a letter to the HCM City's police about her case.

According to VPBank, the bank received Xuan's letter on October 19, 2015.

The bank had inspected the profile of the account and worked-related individuals but they rejected Xuan's accusation, while she did not co-operate with the bank to solve this case, and instead sent her complaint to the police.

Therefore, according to the bank, the police needed to investigate the case and clear any doubts about use of the account holder's signature and Quang Huan Company's seal, which led to the loss.