How bungling employee’s ridiculous mistake saw woman accidentally paid £6million which she spent on plush new house
THIS is how an employee's silly mistake resulted in a mum receiving a whopping £6million into her bank account.
Thevamanogari Manivel has already spent most of the money helping her family and splurging on an £800,000 luxury home.
The mum from Melbourne, Australia got lucky when cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com accidentally paid her £6million instead of the £60 refund she was set to receive.
It took the company seven months to uncover their error during a routine audit when they realised there was a mistake in the forms.
It discovered it had accidentally entered an account number in the field that was meant to be the cash amount.
Crypto.com started legal proceedings in February and managed to get the woman's accounts frozen- but most of the money was already gone.
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Ms Manivel bought a stunning five-bedroom property in Craigieburn as a "gift" for her sister Thilagavathy Gangadory.
The rest of the funds have been sent to six other people including her sister and her daughter.
Her sister's bank accounts have also been frozen.
But the mum has been forced to sell up after she was ordered by the court to pay back every penny of the wrongful payment- including ten per cent interest and legal fees.
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Victorian Supreme Court judge James Elliott said: "Extraordinarily, the plaintiffs allegedly did not realise this significant error until some seven months later.
“It is established that the Craigieburn property was acquired with funds traceable to the wrongful payment and would never have been in Gangadory’s hands if the wrongful payment had not been made.
“Thus, Gangadory was unjustly enriched by receiving the purchase price of the Craigieburn property out of the wrongful payment.
“Accordingly, I was satisfied that the orders relating to the sale of the Craigieburn property were appropriate.”
Crypto.com's solicitors have been reportedly unable to get a hold of Gangadory who lives in Malaisia.
Manivel’s solicitors informed the company that Gangadory was “seeking legal advice”.
