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Bank mistakenly transferred £ 130m to its clients for Christmas

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The bank duplicated transfers by mistake

The bank is trying to return the money, but many clients have already either transferred funds to the accounts of other banks or have already spent them.

Spanish bank Santander mistakenly sent £ 130 million to tens of thousands of customers in the UK. Writes about it BBC News.

A technical error occurred on December 25th. The bank mistakenly duplicated transfers to employees of two thousand British companies – in total, the money came to 75 thousand accounts.

After finding the error, the financial institution tried to return the funds. However, some clients withdrew the money, some managed to transfer it to other banks. Santander is currently negotiating with them. However, experts say he is unlikely to be able to return the entire amount in full.

Santander also added that they can contact people directly to get their money back.

Earlier it was reported that the American mistakenly received $ 50 billion into the account… There was a technical glitch at a local bank. The man himself reported the mistake of the financial institution.

As a reminder, last year another US citizen was also due to a banking error became richer by $ 2.45 billion.

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