A former employee of the Bank of South Pacific has been sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to dishonestly applying K7,300 belonging to a man who had savings with the bank.
Mike Mack of Angoram in the East Sepik Province was sentenced to two years in prison however that sentence was suspended because he repaid all those monies.
Mack was a call centre agent with BSP retail in Port Moresby, when he accessed two accounts belonging to a John Warang and transferred the monies.
He committed the crime between February 18 and March 6, 2016 by accessing the accounts using the account holder’s mobile banking personal details.
He got a sim replacement from Digicel, and used Warang’s mobile numbers to make the transactions via mobile banking.
The monies obtained from Warang’s accounts were sent to five other accounts by Mack.
His lawyer told the Waigani National Court that he repaid all the stolen monies on April 4. The payments were made into the National Court Trust account.
The State informed the court that BSP reimbursed the K7,300 into Warang’s account.
Trial judge, Deputy Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika made an order to have the monies Mack paid into the National Court Trust account to be transferred back to BSP.