Boss exposes billion-dollar scam of female HR manager
Working for a foreign company, Pham Kim Anh took advantage of her superiors' trust to defraud and appropriate more than 5.5 billion VND.
The Hanoi People's Procuracy has just completed the indictment to prosecute Pham Kim Anh (born 1975, former head of the administrative and human resources department, representative office of SPF Joint Stock Company - Japan in Hanoi) for fraud and appropriation of property.
SPF Joint Stock Company - Japan (SPF Company) established a representative office in Hanoi in 2008, operating in the field of selling and designing equipment used in the plating industry, selling plating materials and tools; selling and designing electrodes, chemical machinery...
In September 2008, the company's representative office in Hanoi signed a labor contract with Kim Anh and assigned her to the position of head of human resources and administration.
Kim Anh's duties are to be in charge of office management, bank account management, authorized to make transactions, withdraw money from the company's account to cover office operating expenses.
Due to the need for spending money, Kim Anh lied that the company needed to pay office management fees and absentee management fees (because the office manager was only present in Vietnam when working with partners). At the same time, she raised the office rent herself and asked the company to maintain a minimum balance in the bank account.
Because they trusted Kim Anh, SPF company transferred the money as requested.
In June 2018, Mr. Katsunori Miyake, Head of SPF's Representative Office in Hanoi, returned to Vietnam and asked Kim Anh to report expenses for the office's operations.
At this time, Mr. Katsunori Miyake discovered that Kim Anh had made many incorrect payments and had withdrawn the minimum balance of about 40,000 USD in the company's bank account.
Because Kim Anh did not cooperate, Mr. Katsunori Miyake filed a complaint of fraud and property appropriation to the authorities.
Investigation results show that from February 2011 to June 2018, Kim Anh appropriated more than 5.5 billion VND from SPF company.
The defendant has compensated 1.1 billion VND, and is currently embezzling more than 4.4 billion VND.