In Chile, a company’s payment system failed to send 1,65 billion dollars to 3,700 employees, equivalent to 330 times the monthly salary of its employees, and the company lost its account three days after receiving the full amount of money, and after three years of trial, the court ruled that employees did not need a refund and were exempt from criminal punishment.
According to a report by Minnan.com on October 9th, the local court in Chile made a final ruling on a salary dispute case that dragged on for three years.
The employee who lost contact after being mistakenly paid 165 million Chilean pesos in salary was not only not required to refund the money, but was also exempted from all criminal penalties.
This result came out, many people felt unexpected, after all, this money is equivalent to the employee's wage of 330 months, in exchange for RMB 1230,000, enough ordinary people do not need to work for 28 years.
The dispute has been discussed for three years, starting on May 30, 2022.
That day, the finance department of Chilean food company CIAL handled payroll payments as usual, but the payment system suddenly failed, and a sum of money that should not have belonged to the office assistant was quietly credited to his account.
When the assistant received the bank text message, he looked at the extra 165 million Chilean pesos in his account and immediately realized that the company had sent it wrong.
He didn't hide it, took the initiative to find the competent department of the company to explain the situation, and promised on the spot that he would return the money. At that time, his attitude was completely a dutiful migrant worker.
But no one expected that things would change three days later.
The assistant suddenly submitted a letter of resignation, and immediately empty all the money in the bank account, after which there was absolutely no news, the company wanted to contact him again, the phone could not work, people could not find, living out of "human evaporation".
Later someone mentioned that he had privately said "this is money earned by luck, I don't steal," apparently to take this wrong pay as an unexpected fortune he deserves.
But behind the shift in employee attitude, the company's own response also hides obvious omissions.
First of all, the root cause of this wrong sending is that there are loopholes in the company's payment system. If the early system maintenance is in place, such problems will not occur at all.
More importantly, employees have actively account abnormalities, and the company clearly knows the money was wrong, but did not take any action within 24 hours.
Neither frozen employees' accounts, nor contacted the bank to intercept funds, and looked at the money left in the employee's account, giving the other party a chance to take it.
After the employee lost contact, the company became anxious. At first, it reported the case on the charge of "theft", and later it was changed to "misappropriation of funds". Even the charges of prosecution were changed back and forth. Obviously, it did not think clearly in advance what its own fault would have on the verdict. impact.
Looking back now, if the company could first take the freezing measures, the money would probably not be taken out in full, and subsequent disputes could also be avoided.
The trial lasts three years, and results will not be obtained until September 2025.
The reason given by the court is clear:
On the one hand, the employee initially initially an abnormal amount, which indicates that he had no idea of illegal possession at first.
On the other hand, the company knows that the money is wrong but does not stop the damage in time, it must take part of the responsibility, and can not put all the consequences on the employees.
Although the court also acknowledged that there were problems with the employee's subsequent misconnection, the fault was not yet to the extent that it constituted a crime, so it eventually sentenced the employee to no need to refund and no criminal liability.
Such judgment logic, indeed, puts the responsibility of the enterprise on the table, not only looking at the follow-up of employees' behavior, but from the source of the incident to grind the responsibility of both sides, and the tendency of Chilean law to focus more on corporate responsibility is consistent.
After the incident spread, the online discussion was also divided into two factions.
Some people feel that the judgment is reasonable and say,"Whoever makes the mistake will pay." The company's own system has problems and does not stop losses in time. There is no reason for employees to bear the losses. They also use the analogy of "no one will be responsible for leaving the cabinet" and feel that there is nothing wrong with the logic of taking responsibility;
There are also people who say that 1.230,000 for ordinary employees is the opportunity to change their lives, anyone can change their minds, and employees have submitted resignation letters to go, not "borrowing money".
Today's sharing here is over, what do you think about the matter, welcome in the comment area comments and discussions, interested can click the first image and pay attention, I will update the quality content daily, we look forward to seeing you next.
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The original article was published on Minnan. com on October 09, 2025."A Chilean employee disappeared after being mistakenly paid 165 million yuan in salary. The court ruled that no refund is required!" reports
According to a report by Minnan.com on October 9th, the local court in Chile made a final ruling on a salary dispute case that dragged on for three years.
The employee who lost contact after being mistakenly paid 165 million Chilean pesos in salary was not only not required to refund the money, but was also exempted from all criminal penalties.
This result came out, many people felt unexpected, after all, this money is equivalent to the employee's wage of 330 months, in exchange for RMB 1230,000, enough ordinary people do not need to work for 28 years.
The dispute has been discussed for three years, starting on May 30, 2022.
That day, the finance department of Chilean food company CIAL handled payroll payments as usual, but the payment system suddenly failed, and a sum of money that should not have belonged to the office assistant was quietly credited to his account.
When the assistant received the bank text message, he looked at the extra 165 million Chilean pesos in his account and immediately realized that the company had sent it wrong.
He didn't hide it, took the initiative to find the competent department of the company to explain the situation, and promised on the spot that he would return the money. At that time, his attitude was completely a dutiful migrant worker.
But no one expected that things would change three days later.
The assistant suddenly submitted a letter of resignation, and immediately empty all the money in the bank account, after which there was absolutely no news, the company wanted to contact him again, the phone could not work, people could not find, living out of "human evaporation".
Later someone mentioned that he had privately said "this is money earned by luck, I don't steal," apparently to take this wrong pay as an unexpected fortune he deserves.
But behind the shift in employee attitude, the company's own response also hides obvious omissions.
First of all, the root cause of this wrong sending is that there are loopholes in the company's payment system. If the early system maintenance is in place, such problems will not occur at all.
More importantly, employees have actively account abnormalities, and the company clearly knows the money was wrong, but did not take any action within 24 hours.
Neither frozen employees' accounts, nor contacted the bank to intercept funds, and looked at the money left in the employee's account, giving the other party a chance to take it.
After the employee lost contact, the company became anxious. At first, it reported the case on the charge of "theft", and later it was changed to "misappropriation of funds". Even the charges of prosecution were changed back and forth. Obviously, it did not think clearly in advance what its own fault would have on the verdict. impact.
Looking back now, if the company could first take the freezing measures, the money would probably not be taken out in full, and subsequent disputes could also be avoided.
The trial lasts three years, and results will not be obtained until September 2025.
The reason given by the court is clear:
On the one hand, the employee initially initially an abnormal amount, which indicates that he had no idea of illegal possession at first.
On the other hand, the company knows that the money is wrong but does not stop the damage in time, it must take part of the responsibility, and can not put all the consequences on the employees.
Although the court also acknowledged that there were problems with the employee's subsequent misconnection, the fault was not yet to the extent that it constituted a crime, so it eventually sentenced the employee to no need to refund and no criminal liability.
Such judgment logic, indeed, puts the responsibility of the enterprise on the table, not only looking at the follow-up of employees' behavior, but from the source of the incident to grind the responsibility of both sides, and the tendency of Chilean law to focus more on corporate responsibility is consistent.
After the incident spread, the online discussion was also divided into two factions.
Some people feel that the judgment is reasonable and say,"Whoever makes the mistake will pay." The company's own system has problems and does not stop losses in time. There is no reason for employees to bear the losses. They also use the analogy of "no one will be responsible for leaving the cabinet" and feel that there is nothing wrong with the logic of taking responsibility;
There are also people who say that 1.230,000 for ordinary employees is the opportunity to change their lives, anyone can change their minds, and employees have submitted resignation letters to go, not "borrowing money".
Today's sharing here is over, what do you think about the matter, welcome in the comment area comments and discussions, interested can click the first image and pay attention, I will update the quality content daily, we look forward to seeing you next.
The source:
The original article was published on Minnan. com on October 09, 2025."A Chilean employee disappeared after being mistakenly paid 165 million yuan in salary. The court ruled that no refund is required!" reports