Female kindergarten accountant inflated her salary 30 times to appropriate money

The Investigation Police Agency of Da Nang City Police has prosecuted and temporarily detained Nguyen Thi Van Kieu (born in 1987, residing in Hoa An ward, Cam Le district) for the crimes of "embezzlement of property", "forging seals and documents of agencies and organizations”.

The investigation agency also prosecuted and banned Trinh Thi Thu Tam (born in 1966); Truong Thi Thanh Van (born in 1971); Tran Thi Thuy Hoa (born in 1963) and Nguyen Thi Duy Hoang (born in 1987, all residing in Cam Le district) from leaving their place of residence to investigate the crime of "lack of responsibility causing damage to property of the State, agencies, organizations, and enterprises" as prescribed in Article 179 of the Penal Code.

Defendant Nguyen Thi Van Kieu. Photo: Police

According to the case, during her time as an accountant at Hoa Ngoc Lan Kindergarten (Cam Le district), from August 2017 to June 2019, Kieu used many methods and tricks to embezzle money from the school.

Specifically, this defendant forged and forged the principal's signature on the payment authorization and budget withdrawal papers to withdraw money from the treasury and then appropriated it. He forged and then had the principal sign the payment authorization and state budget withdrawal papers to withdraw money from the treasury and then appropriate it.

Created and inflated the day-boarding and Saturday salaries by 20 to 30 times the actual salary so that the principal could sign or forge the principal's signature to transfer money from the treasury and bank to his personal account and then embezzle it. The total amount of money that Kieu embezzled was nearly 1 billion VND.

Police prosecuted and banned Tam, Van, Hoa and Hoang from leaving their place of residence. Photo: CA

During the investigation, the police determined that the two school principals, Trinh Thi Thu Tam and Truong Thi Thanh Van, and the two treasurers, Tran Thi Thuy Hoa and Nguyen Thi Duy Hoang, had been lax in management and lacked responsibility in the management and use of boarding school fees, causing a loss of nearly 700 million VND, as well as allowing Kieu to embezzle nearly 1 billion VND for a long time without detection.

According to the investigation agency, the appropriation and loss of assets by the subjects affected the boarding salaries of other teachers in the school, and also led to the school owing money to units supplying food and goods for teaching.

The case is under further investigation.