I had £127,000 accidentally deposited into my bank account – so I spent it and nothing will make me hand it back
A MAN who was accidentally paid £127,000 into his bank account has been jailed after refusing to hand any of the cash back.
The Indian man living in the UAE was put behind bars for a month after authorities were unable to locate the missing money.
The cash was put into his account in October 2021 after a medical trading company meant to send the money to a client instead, .
The unidentified man told the judge that he had used the cash to pay for rent and bills but the rest of the money is now missing.
It was not revealed if the accused had deposited the money elsewhere or moved it into multiple accounts.
He did confirm that he had received the £127,000 but did not verify where the cash had come from.
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According to court reports, he told the judge: "I was surprised when Dh 570,000(£127,000) was deposited in my bank account.
"I paid for my rent and expenses."
After he refused to hand any of the money back, the company reported the incident to Dubai's Al Raffa police station and the bank account was frozen.
The company told the judge: "We discovered the transfer was done to an account similar to the supplier's account without checking the details."
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The accused responded by saying: "A company asked me to return the money, but I refused because I was unsure if the money belonged to them.
"They asked me several times."
Dubai Public Prosecution charged him with obtaining the money illegally.
He has now appealed against the verdict and a hearing is expected next month.
In September, a woman who was accidentally paid £6million splurged the lot on a luxury mansion and family gifts.
Thevamanogari Manivel, 40, thought it was her lucky day when a cryptocurrency trader mistakenly tranferred the windfall instead of a £60 refund.
She was expecting the small rebate from digital currency exchange Crypto.com, but received the seven-figure sum after a staff blunder.
It took the firm seven months to uncover their error during a routine audit when they realised there was a mistake in the forms.
But by the time Crypto.com started legal proceedings in February, the mum from Melbourne, Australia had already spent most of the money.
Manivel had purchased a stunning five-bedroom property in Craigieburn as a "gift" for her sister Thilagavathy Gangadory.
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The rest of the funds were sent to six other people including her sister and her daughter.
But after her spending spree, Manivel has bizarrely claimed she was under the impression her partner had won the money, Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard.