How someone can tell another person that one of their loved ones has passed away when they actually haven’t is beyond me.
It must take a certain amount of coldheartedness to do what this man did.
S’porean Employee Cheated Kindhearted Boss Of $7,800 By Claiming His Dad Has Died
A Singaporean employee named Yari Rawi, 45, thought it would be a great idea to trick his kind boss into giving him some money.
He told his boss that his father had passed away and needed money urgently to pay for his funeral.
That would probably make anyone empathise and feel bad for him. However, his boss took it a step further by lending him $7,800 as he had wanted to help.
Later, Yari admitted that he had lied and that his father was actually alive.
Well, at least he told the truth in the end… right?
The Incident
Back in September 2018, Yari worked as a call centre and business development manager for a medical manufacturer.
He heard that the executive director of his company had plans to travel to Sri Lanka for a vacation in December 2018 and offered to help with the bookings since he had connections.
On 16 October, Yari lied to his boss that he had made all the bookings and payment on his behalf. His boss then repaid him $2,000.
On 30 October, he told his boss that his father had passed away and asked for a loan of $3,800 to pay for his funeral.
His kind boss got his wife to transfer the money to Yari. However, they realised that the transfer would take 2 days to go through and could not be cancelled.
Hence, his boss passed $4,000 cash to Yari.
After the transfer went through, he had received a grand total of $7,800 for the funeral expenses.
He claimed that he would return the money but has not done so.
Now, do you remember the holiday his boss was supposed to go for in December? The one that Yari had supposedly helped him to book?
When his boss finally went for his holiday, he realised he had been cheated.
When he returned to Singapore, he demanded that Yari return him all the money. However, Yari made various excuses to avoid repaying.
It was the last straw and his boss made a police report on 15 February 2019. That was when Yari finally admitted that he had lied in order to get money to pay his personal debts.
For each cheating charge, he can be jailed for up to 10 years and fined.
