The pet shop owner at the centre of a bank scandal has decided to drop charges against Kasikorn.
An employee of the pet shop had brought 80,000 baht to the bank in Wat Singh district in April but the teller had entered only 40,000 baht in the account.
The bank said he only handed over 40,000 but Wachira Ariyapongkorn, 41, was adamant that it was 80,000.
The teller was later charged with theft by Wat Singh police.
Subsequently, Kasikorn visited the pet shop owner in June to give her 40,000 baht to keep the case out of the news. She took the money but then gave it to the police saying she intended to keep the matter going through the courts.
But yesterday the owner Saisunee Oo-petch, 55 and the bank teller Jutharat Iam-jui, 30 – along with a lawyer of the bank – settled the matter after they were called in by the public prosecutor.
A Wat Singh police spokesman said that Saisunee had accepted the 40,000 baht offered by the bank.
The bank said it was all a genuine mistake.
Saisunee accepted this – and her money.
Thaivisa have stated that when the story broke the pet shop owner had said that this was not the first time they had had such a problem with that branch.
It all seems a bit strange. What happened to the receipt that the cashier would have to have given the customer? The amount deposited would have to match the amount on the receipt if the alleged dishonest cashier was going to get away with it.
(Source:-Daily News)