A man in Shanghai, China, passed away due to illness for several days when his sister discovered that there were still money transfers out of his bank account after his death, with a cumulative amount as high as 500,000 yuan (RM285,200), which was extremely suspicious. Police investigation found all clues pointed to the man’s close ‘companion’. Recently, the Minhang police in Shanghai solved a theft case and successfully recovered nearly one million yuan in funds and jade involved in the case.
According to a report by Sanxiang Metropolitan Daily, on the 23rd of last month, Ms. Zhang called the Gumeilu Police Station of Minhang Public Security Sub-bureau to report that after her brother Mr. Zhang’s death there were still transfers out of his account totaling 500,000 yuan. The police immediately began an investigation and found that most of the account’s transfers took place within two days after Mr. Zhang’s passing. On the day of his death alone, 200,000 yuan (RM114,100) was transferred out of his card, and 10,000 yuan (RM5,703) cash was withdrawn at an ATM. The following day, another 290,000 yuan (RM165,400) was transferred out.
It was revealed that Mr. Zhang died that morning at 9:33 am. Just 12 minutes later, at 9:45 am, a sum of 100,000 yuan (RM57,000) was moved from his bank card. Reviewing the transaction records, police quickly identified the suspect as Ms. Liu, the housekeeper living with Mr. Zhang, and contacted her to assist with the investigation.
"Over the years, I have always helped him operate his phone for daily expenses, so I knew his payment password," Ms. Liu confessed truthfully to police after being brought in. Investigation showed that Liu, who is married, had worked as the live-in housekeeper caring for Mr. Zhang for 4 years. After his death, Liu decided to profit by transferring his assets.
After successively transferring out 500,000 yuan from the account, Liu also took several pieces of jade from Mr. Zhang’s two residences to sell for profit. Afterwards, in order to prevent Mr. Zhang’s family from discovering the bank account theft, she even attempted to delete the related transaction records. Currently, Liu has been criminally detained on suspicion of theft.