Bank cashier stole over $1 mln by hiding it in dustbin   For illustration only. Wikimedia A former cashier at BIDV, a giant state-owned bank, managed to steal a total US$1.46 million in 2010-2013, mostly by hiding money in the dustbin on a weekly basis. Under the pretense of emptying it, she would take the dustbin out of the office at the end of the day and keep the money. Police in the central Binh Dinh Province have proposed the local prosecutor’s office to indict Ho Thi Thu Huong, a former cashier at a branch of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) on charges of embezzlement. Huong has been found appropriating VND31 billion ($1.46 million) from the bank, and if convicted, may be sentenced to 20 years in jail, or life imprisonment, or even death, said Nguyen Duc Tri, head of the provincial People’s Procuracy. According to the case file, Huong, a graduate of the An Nhon Technique High School in the province’s An Nhon Town, was employed by BIDV’s Phu Tai branch as a cashier in 2004. In the period from early 2010 to January 2013, Huong every week took a sum ranging from VND50 million to VND500 million (up to $24,000) from the branch and put it into a dustbin. At the end of the working day, Huong pretended to bring the dustbin to empty it, and then took the sum out of the dustbin and hid it in her handbag and left the branch. With such a trick, Huong pocketed more than VND900 million every month. When her scam was discovered, she had appropriated more than VND22 billion ($1.04 million) using this method. In addition, Huong was also alleged to steal another VND9 billion from the bank to give to her brother-in-law Vo Hong Son and two others who were involved in an illegal lottery ring. Son and these two will be indicted, Tri said. The acts of irresponsibility of some executives at the branch will be handled and tried in another case, the prosecutor’s office said. TUOITRENEWS