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Hungarian’s 367-fold salary surge

DUNYA NEWS – A man from Hungary experienced a temporary windfall when his employer mistakenly paid him 367 times his actual earnings.

Following the error, the company requested the excess money back, but the individual declined to return it. The unnamed man, originally from Somogy County in Hungary, had a brief stint with a company in Kaposvár before his employment was terminated during the trial period.

For his short stint at the company, he stood to earn HUF92,549, which amounted to EUR238, but in a feat of incredible generosity, his employer wired him 367 times that amount. Actually, it was just a huge mistake caused by the fact that the man had provided an Austrian bank account, so the salary had to be paid in the local currency, euros.

Only instead of converting the forints to euros, they sent the lucky man EUR92,549 instead.

Soon after realising the mistake, the Hungarian company contacted its former employee and asked him to return the money that had been accidentally wired to his bank account.

However, the man said that he did not have access to the Austrian bank account anymore, so he couldn’t wire them the money back.

A subsequent police investigation found that the man had extracted some EUR15,500 from his Austrian account through an ATM in southern Hungary and transferred it to another bank account.

With the help of the Kaposvár District Prosecutor’s Office, the company managed to freeze the Austrian bank account of the accused and arranged for the money to be transferred back to its own bank account.

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