By mistake, a doctor's salary started coming into the account of Yessica Arua, who works in a horse clinic. She enjoyed this extra money for about 11 months.

Just imagine, your monthly salary of Rs 50,000 suddenly increases to Rs 80,000 and starts coming into your bank account without any notice or bonus! What would be your first thought? Maybe you will call the company's HR, or check if she has received any bumper bonus? But, a woman working in a horse clinic did nothing like this. Much more money than the fixed salary kept coming into her bank account and she continued to live her life happily with this 'extra' money.

No questions, no worries... The woman continued to enjoy this money with complete carelessness. She was shopping, buying a new house and enjoying delicious food in expensive restaurants. For 11 months, more money than the salary kept coming into her account and when this whole story came to light, the woman was arrested. She was asked to return the extra amount that had gone into her account, but she had already spent the money. Why did more money come into her account and what happened to that woman next, let us tell you the whole story.

The story begins in February 2022. According to a report in the Daily Mail, this woman named Yessica Arua worked as a receptionist at a horse clinic in Florida. 29-year-old Arua, who has been working here for the last several years, was waiting for her salary on the first of the month, but when she received a salary message on her mobile, she was shocked. Much more money than the salary had come into her account.

Arua neither asked any official of her clinic about this nor did she tell anyone that more salary had come in her account. She thought that perhaps the clinic had sent this amount as a bonus after being pleased with her work. After this, this trend continued. Every month, more money than her salary started coming in her bank account and she kept fulfilling her hobbies with this money.

Yessica Arua did not tell anyone at the clinic that she was receiving a higher salary in her account

Between February 2022 and January 2023, an amount of about Rs 3 crore, 43 lakh, 80 thousand (400,000 dollars) reached Arua's account as excess salary. In the beginning of the year 2023, the director of the company caught this mistake. Actually, the excess amount that was going into Arua's account was the salary of the doctor of the clinic. Arua was getting the doctor's salary by mistake.

How the secret of higher salary was revealed

The doctor of the clinic had not checked his salary account for about a year. He came to know about this when some of his credit cards were cancelled. After this, he saw his salary account and asked the director of the company about this. Immediately all the accounts were checked and it was found that the doctor's salary was being continuously credited, but in the wrong bank account.

The salary of this doctor of the clinic was about Rs 3 crore 73 lakh annually, which Arua had been taking for 11 months. After the matter was revealed, the police was informed. When the police asked Arua about this, he admitted that he knew that more money was coming into the account, but he thought that it was a bonus for his work as a receptionist.

Where did you spend the money

Arua told police she had previously heard rumors that the previous receptionist had received a bonus for saving money on supplies. Arua was arrested on June 27. Police investigations revealed that Arua used the money to buy furniture, a house and go to expensive restaurants. She also transferred thousands of dollars online to a man named Mama Dukes.

Yessica Aruasays that he considered this increased amount as a bonus

Arua told that she bought a food truck for a friend of her mother with about 80 thousand dollars i.e. about 66 lakh rupees. She is originally from Argentina and she also sent some money to her relatives to buy a house there. It is being told that Arua knew the director of this clinic since the age of 9 and was working here for the last several years.

Returned 1 crore 66 lakh rupees

When the director asked Arua about this, she cried and admitted her mistake. After this, she returned about Rs 1 crore, 66 lakh to the director through a cheque. She said that she cannot return the remaining money, as her mother has already sent about Rs 83 lakh to the family in Argentina. Arua has been accused of a major theft and money laundering from the clinic.

Arua is currently detained at the Main Detention Center in Palm Beach, Florida. Along with this, the director also held the firm that looked after the account of the clinic guilty and demanded action. When the police contacted the firm, they told that the persons who were the first to know about the mistake no longer work in the firm. This clinic, which is open 24 hours, has been running since the year 1981.

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