Bank employee would have stolen almost $1,000 million of customer savings | Bogota

Héctor Fabio Parra Vanegas, a bank employee in Bogotá, was arrested for allegedly accessing the accounts of several clients and stealing their savings. According to the Attorney General, He stole regarding 1,000 million pesos.

Parra Vengas was in charge of strengthening the security of user accounts in the bank’s mobile application, position that gave him unrestricted access to customers’ money.

“This facility, supposedly, was used to create codes, access customers’ financial products and illicitly transfer money to other people’s accounts, who were in charge of withdrawing the money,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

The suspect would have made 82 non-consensual transfers, between the months of May and December 2021, the year in which he joined the bank. It would be 924 million pesos that Parra Vengas stole.

He was captured at his home, located in the west of Bogota, by agents of the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office. During the operation, The authorities found 609 million pesos in cash, 19 thousand dollars, various debit cards, computers, hard drives and USB sticks.

He was charged with the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, abusive access to an aggravated computer system, non-consensual transfer of assets, aggravated mass modality, and illicit use of communication networks. The accused accepted the charges and was sent to a prison.