Ways That Are Dark

You would expect bank employees to have some required skills when it comes to handling money. It seems that two not so smart bank employees in Hebei province ended up becoming two not so smart bank robbers. With unfettered access to the vault, Ren Xiaofeng and Ma Xiangjing stole 51 million yuan and spent most of the money on lottery tickets. Read on:

The two thought that by buying millions of yuan in tickets they would eventually win back enough to replace the missing funds and allow them to leave their low paying jobs for a life of luxury, press reports said.

“Ma Xiangdong and I both like to play the lottery, we thought that we could use the money and buy lottery tickets and win the big prize. We were going to pay the bank back, we never intended to rob the bank.”

“The most we ever spent on lottery tickets at one time was 14.1 million yuan, we were thinking that we could win double what we had stolen,” said Ren, the father of two-year-old twins.

“But we didn’t win. It was at that time that we knew we were finished and that we had better escape,” he said. “So we decided we should steal some more money and flee Handan forever.”

Ren and Ma are facing charges of corruption and the illegal use of public funds. They face execution if convicted.

Read the original AFP article Bumbling Chinese bank robbers spotlight poor management.

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