Six counts of qualified theft were filed separately at the Manila Regional Trial Court against two former employees of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Morayta Branch.
Jay San Rafael, a former BPI relationship manager and Dianne Barit, a BPI teller , were charged with separate cases. The former was with the BPI Morayta branch for more than 15 years and was said to have betrayed the bank’s trust by setting up an automated teller machine (ATM) account for a client without him knowing it. From that account, he was able to divert almost PHP 3 million in funds which he withdrew in small amounts from January to August 2011.
The client, however, got wind of the illegal activities when he received a bank statement for his supposed ATM account. The City prosecutor of Manila approved the filing of charges against San Rafael and recommended no bail for the case.
On the other hand, Barit, a teller at the BPI Remedios branch, reportedly forged the signature of a client to USD250 from a client’s dollar account. Bail for case was set at PHP30,000, Inquirer News reported.
