The Greedy Employee

4 years ago, Tinh came to work for Hien Nguyen store (specializing in pawning and buying and selling used cars, located in Dong An 1 hamlet, My Xuyen ward), owned by Nguyen Tan Hien and Truong Ba Thanh Truc. During this time, Tinh was trusted by the homeowner, assigned to manage the store and walked around the house like a relative, without any suspicion. On July 19, 2022, Mr. Nguyen Tan Hieu (Hien's biological father) brought 2.1 billion VND to pay Hien. Being present at the time, seeing the large amount of money, Tinh had the idea of appropriating a portion.

At around 9:30 a.m. on July 22, 2022, Mr. Hien and his wife had to leave the house. Before leaving, they carefully locked the bedroom door because they kept 1.9 billion VND in the room. However, they left the bedroom key in the trunk of the motorbike parked in the house. Knowing this, Tinh took the key to open the bedroom door and "stole" 500 million VND.

With the money he embezzled, Tinh spent lavishly: Buying an Iphone 13 promax mobile phone, more than 44 million VND; buying a motorbike worth 38.5 million VND; depositing 299 million VND into his personal account; depositing 150 million VND into the account of Thich Thi Truc Ly (Tinh's wife). Then, from his personal account, Tinh transferred 243 million VND to Ly, and transferred 50 million VND to Ngo Thi Bich Nhung (Tinh's mother-in-law). During this time, he quit his job and went to Binh Duong province to visit Ly.

Defendant Tinh listens to the verdict.

Discovering the loss of money, Mr. Hien's family identified Tinh as the culprit, so they reported it to the investigation agency. Invited to work, Tinh transferred 390 million VND to Mr. Hien's account, gave the motorbike and mobile phone that had just been bought with the stolen money, along with more than 10 million VND in cash, and at the same time went to the My Xuyen Ward Police Station to surrender, confessing to the crime. On August 1, 2022, Tinh was prosecuted for investigation.

At the public first instance trial, the Trial Panel determined that the defendant Tinh was a person with full capacity, criminal responsibility and social awareness. When the victim’s family trusted him and hired him as a worker, as a relative, the defendant should have known how to take care of business, cooperate with them to have a legitimate and stable source of income to support himself and his family.

But the defendant took advantage of their kindness, took advantage of loopholes in asset management to steal a large amount of money. The defendant's behavior shows a tendency to indulge in debauchery, show off, and disregard the value of life and existing relationships. It is necessary to deal with it very severely to have ageneral educational , deterrent, and preventive effect.

Although Tinh returned all the misappropriated property to the victim, his actions violated Point a (misappropriation of property worth VND 500 million or more) Clause 4 (imprisonment from 12 to 20 years). The Provincial People's Court sentenced Tinh to 7 years in prison for the crime of "Theft of property", after applying mitigating circumstances according to the provisions of law. As for the people involved (Tinh's wife and mother-in-law) who did not know that the money was stolen by the defendant, and at the same time voluntarily returned it to the victim, the investigation agency did not consider criminal responsibility.

The case is a lesson in hiring domestic workers and employees. Normally, domestic workers live with the homeowner, so they know all the living habits and schedules of each member. Sometimes the homeowner loses their vigilance, revealing valuable assets, stimulating greed, causing the domestic worker to have the intention of stealing.

Therefore, when hiring a housekeeper, people need to carefully consider their relatives and background; pay attention to their behavior and attitude to promptly detect abnormalities; do not trust them to take care of your home and property when you are away. For property, regardless of its value, large or small, it must be kept carefully, not creating loopholes for thieves to steal. In addition, you can equip additional surveillance cameras, alarm devices for intruders in the property storage area, etc.

NGUYEN HUNG

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