Officials of the Criminal Police Division of the Ventspils District of the Kurzeme Regional Office of the State Police have completed an investigation in criminal proceedings into the misappropriation of several hundred thousand euros in a company in Ventspils. Currently, the criminal proceedings have been sent to the prosecutor’s office for criminal prosecution.
In December last year, criminal proceedings were initiated in the Ventspils section of the Kurzeme Regional Office of the State Police for the misappropriation of funds in the amount of several hundred thousand euros by a logistics employee of a company.
The investigation revealed that the man’s job responsibilities at the company included receiving cash from couriers, who received the money from customers, who in turn paid for the delivered goods. He had to transfer this money to the company’s account, which he did in good faith. However, from the end of 2018 to the end of 2019, when the company found illegalities, he stopped doing so and kept the money with him.
At the request of the boss, the man returned part of the misappropriated money, namely about 180,000 euros, which he kept at home in shoe boxes, but, according to him, part of the rest of the money was lost – part of the money was lost, envelope with about 20 more. Thousands of euros have disappeared at the moment when he enjoyed the night life in Riga, while he still played the remaining money in slot machines. The man had not previously been brought to the attention of the police and was subjected to a non-custodial security measure during the investigation.
According to the Criminal Law, embezzlement, if committed on a large scale, is punishable by up to ten years’ imprisonment with or without confiscation of property and supervision of probation for up to three years or without it. The amount of the penalty will be determined by the court.
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