JEDDAH: A court in Jeddah has ordered two Saudis working for a local bank to return SR300,000 to their bank after the money was allegedly lost from an ATM at one of the bank’s branches during their working hours.
A lawyer representing the bank defended the two employees before the court and said they put a sum of SR600,000 into the ATM and the next day they returned SR37,000 to the bank’s treasury, recording that the remainder of the money was withdrawn by the customers from the ATM.
However, an audit showed that the customers did not withdraw even half of the money, leaving a deficit of SR300,000.
The two employees told the judge that they were responsible for depositing the money at the ATM and they were also responsible to return the surplus to the bank and they were sure that there was no money in the machine except the SR37,000, which they have already reimbursed to the bank. They insisted that they were innocent and refused to accuse anyone of stealing the money. They also had no doubt about a technical fault in the machine.
After many hearing sessions, the court ordered the two employees to return the sum of SR300,000 to the bank. The Court of Cassation approved the verdict, which was not to be contested or appealed.
