Missing millions at top Costa Rica bank spark investigation
Costa Rica’s attorney general’s office has opened an investigation into the disappearance of some $6 million at the Central American country’s largest commercial bank, bank officials said yesterday. Photo: Internet Source
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Costa Rica’s attorney general’s office has opened an investigation into the disappearance of some $6 million at the Central American country’s largest commercial bank, bank officials said yesterday.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Costa Rica’s attorney general’s office has opened an investigation into the disappearance of some $6 million at the Central American country’s largest commercial bank, bank officials said yesterday.
The 3.3 billion colones ($6.2 million) in question were first detected missing at the National Bank of Costa Rica in August through internal audits, and five employees have been suspended as a result, the bank’s interim manager, Jaime Murillo, told a press conference.
The attorney general’s office is investigating five officials, including an accountant, supervisors and a guard.
“We cannot say for sure that this is fraud or that someone stole this cash. We are not at that point yet. It is under investigation,” Murillo said, adding that such a situation had never before occurred in the bank’s 109-year history.
The bank’s clients are not at risk, the official added.
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