A man who suddenly quit his job after he was accidentally paid 300 times his salary has won a court battle to keep the money.
The worker, who was an office assistant at food company Dan Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos de Chile, usually earned £386 a month.
But in May 2022 his employers paid him £127,000.
The company said he initially agreed to return the money, but three days later the worker handed in his notice.
During a three-year legal battle he was accused of theft, but a judge in Santiago has since ruled it was not stealing but instead ‘unauthorised collection’.
This means the court is unable to prosecute the crime, but company bosses have said they are determined to win back the money.
In a statement to Diario Financiero, they said: ‘We will take all possible legal steps, particularly an application for annulment, to have the ruling reviewed.’
It comes after a work-from-home police officer tricked bosses into thinking he was busy solving cases– by jamming a key on his computer.
Skiving Detective Constable Niall Thubron, 33, stood accused of ‘key jamming’ – holding down a single key so it looked like he was typing.
He was found guilty of gross misconduct.
The Durham police officer was alleged to have jammed his keyboard on 28 occasions over twelve days.
He intended to ‘give the impression’ that he was ‘completing tasks’ while ‘working from home’, it was alleged.
He would have been sacked for gross misconduct had he not already resigned from Durham Police in May, the disciplinary hearing concluded.
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