A savings bank employee in Münster is said to have repeatedly diverted change and embezzled at least 30,000 euros.
The now 63-year-old was responsible for accepting and counting the customers' money deposited in coins, said a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office on Friday.
The money will be delivered in a kind of box, "he should have reached into it again and again and over a longer period of time," the spokesman continued.
Münster - The man is therefore accused of embezzlement.
The newspaper "Westfälische Nachrichten" had previously reported.
According to the investigations, the case was uncovered because the city of Münster missed money in the account after depositing coins from its parking machine.
After internal audits, the city administration could have ruled out that the deficits arose from them, the public prosecutor's spokesman continued.
Investigations were then initiated at the bank, whereupon the employee came into focus.
During their investigations, the police found that the man had later deposited the small amounts into his own account.
The investigation continued.
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Building on the results of the investigation, it will now be checked precisely whether and to what extent “starting points for optimizing individual work processes can be identified”.
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