The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 04/05/2011
A client of Bank Victoria, Omar Halak, said a staffer at the bank had allegedly used the same techniques as Inong Melinda, aka “Malinda Dee”, to embezzle a total of Rp 7.1 billion (US$816,500) belonging to him.
Malinda Dee, a senior personal banking manager at Citibank, is said to have siphoned off Rp 17 billion from her clients' accounts into several of her personal accounts. Her case is currently being investigated by Jakarta Police.
According to Omar's attorney, Dwi Heri Sulistiawan, the staffer at the Victoria Bank branch in Muara Karang, North Jakarta, used the same modus operandi as that seen in the Citibank case.
“Our client is a private customer of Bank Victoria, where he kept his account,” Dwi said Tuesday in Jakarta.
Omar and Dwi were at Jakarta Police station to inquire about developments in their case after filing a report on it in January. The embezzlement allegedly took place from 2004 to 2006, when 15 withdrawals were made without Omar's knowledge.
“We are taking advantage of the momentum ... our case is similar to that of the victims of Citibank in which the clients’ funds were stolen by an insider,” Dwi added, as reported by tribunnews.com.
The police have named one suspect in the case, the former marketing manager of Victoria Bank, Lusiana Oei. Lusiana has been placed under city arrest.
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