What would you buy if you suddenly found $ 1 million in your bank account? A Russian bought himself a new property, new cars, a single iPhone and six years in prison after spending what was in fact the bank’s money.
Newsweek shares that Roman Yurkov discovered $ 1.3 million in his bank account due to a technical error before embarking on a bizarre spending spree:
The 35-year-old car salesman took advantage of a mistake during a technical update in his bank’s mobile app in June 2020 and withdrew funds from the account through bookmakers, the survey found and as reported by Lenta.ru.
Yurkov insists that his bank told him there was no problem with his bank account, so he convinced himself that the new fortune came from a gambling payment.
He made 220 transactions on the night of May 31, 2020, including a new BMW and Mercedes because you can’t have just one, four new apartments because all that money has to go somewhere, and oddly enough, just one new iPhone.
Sadly, Yurkov’s “bet” is the one he ultimately lost after the bank filed a quarterly report that highlighted the banking error. By the time Yurkov was arrested and the bank recovered its cash, only $ 540,000 was left of the $ 1.3 million mistakenly placed in his account.
He was found guilty of taking advantage of an error in his bank’s software by a court this week, which is bad news if you are him. The good news is that it will be released in time for the iPhone 18 if it plays its cards right. Let this be a lesson for all of us on what to do with the money found.
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