The Department of Combating Economic Crimes and Money Laundering followed up on a report received from the Chairman of the Board of Directors of (A.S.G.), one of the major companies operating in the private sector in the city of Benghazi, who reported the discovery of an incident of embezzlement in the company’s accounts and system after noticing significant losses.
The report stated, “The company formed an inventory and audit committee to determine the value of the deficit and embezzlement, which exceeded 1,800,000 (two million eight hundred thousand dinars), and it was found that the person responsible for these losses was an employee with a leadership supervisory position in the company called (H.N.B), who was confronted before a committee.” inventory and admitted to entering a large number of fictitious recalls of items of goods previously supplied to the company’s branches, and entering invoices for these same quantities and without value.”
The Department for Combating Economic Crimes and Money Laundering said, “It acted immediately upon receiving the report based on the instructions of the Director of the Department, opening a report on the incident and then moving to the company’s headquarters.”
The administration added in a statement, “The so-called (H.N.B.) was cooperative in surrendering himself, after the company provided investigators with all the measures taken against him before he was transferred to the administration’s headquarters.”
The statement continued, “By reasoning with the accused, he acknowledged and confessed to committing the crime of embezzlement by exploiting his work tasks assigned to him, in his capacity as branch accounts supervisor, during his follow-up of the branch debts in the company’s main system, and entering recovery operations for a portion of the goods related to these debts, and sale invoices without value and in the same quantities returned.” Within the main system only, so that the debt in the branch system remains as it is, without change, so that the financial value mentioned in the fictitious recovery operations is then received, which is the value of embezzlement, when the branch pays the full value of the debt before it arrives or reaches the treasury of the main administration under the pretext of replacing it with a check.” .
The accused also admitted that “he has been doing this for a period of seven months, but he does not remember the total value due to the large number of fake recovery operations that he carried out at intermittent intervals, and that he carried out part of them using secret numbers belonging to other employees of the company, after his powers became limited to the capacity in which he was assigned.” recently”.
The accused admitted that “he spent the amount in payments and on travel outside the country, after he converted parts of the amounts into hard currency (dollars).”
The accused indicated that he “wrote a statement and confession about himself in the company before the inventory committee in an attempt to resolve the issue amicably and avoid scandal.”
The Department of Combating Economic Crimes and Money Laundering confirmed that “the accused, confronted with the fictitious returns and sales invoices without the value of the incident, confessed and acknowledged them, to be placed in legal custody, and the report with all its attachments was referred to the Public Prosecution for the matter.”
Last updated: October 1, 2024 – 14:26
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