Romanian bank employee investigated for illegally taking money from client’s account

A Bucharest bank employee was prosecuted on charges of computer fraud and forgery, after allegedly taking over RON 567,000 (more than EUR 126,000) from a customer’s bank account, according to a statement of the organised crime and anti-terrorism directorate DIICOT. The bank employee is believed to have requested the issuance of a new security token on behalf of the client. He then accessed the client’s account, without having the right to do so, and made three unauthorized bank transfers. On January 6 this year, the man transferred RON 200,000 (some EUR 44,000) to another account, the stated reason for the transaction being the payment of a real estate transaction. The reason was proved to not be real, according to DIICOT. He later transferred another RON 49,000 (more than EUR 10,000) to his account. “The investigation revealed that the suspect withdrew, in cash, most of the mentioned amounts,” reads the DIICOT statement. In a third transaction, the suspect transferred over RON 318,000 (over EUR 70,000) to purchase a BMW X5 car, which entered in his possession based on forged documents. Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com