What would you do if you checked your bank account and found that you had mistakenly been paid 300 times your normal salary? Well, one employee who discovered he had been paid almost £150,000 for a month’s work instead of the usual £450 decided to run. The unnamed staff member at Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos in Chile initially raised the impressive overpayment for May with his manager, who then flagged it up with HR. He agreed to return the cash and promised to go to the bank the next day. But instead of giving it back, the man withdrew it and has not been seen since. Consorcio’s employer tried to contact the man over the next three days, but to no avail, according to local media outlet Diario Financiero. They were later contacted by the unnamed man’s lawyers, who informed Consorcio that the man had resigned from his position with the company. After no sign of contact, company bosses decided to file a complaint with legal officials accusing the man of misappropriating funds. The average take-home pay in Chile is £750 a month, £300 more than the unnamed man received. So far no arrests have been made. Contact our news team by emailing us at [email protected] For more stories like this, check out our news page.
