A 28-year-old woman surnamed Du in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province is currently being tried for the embezzlement of RMB2.4 million that she took from the coffers of the supermarket where she worked.
According to reports, the majority of the money she took was spent on maintaining her affair with a 22-year-old man identified only by his surname, Chen.
In 2010, an 18-year-old Chen began working for the same supermarket when Du, then 24, had been working there for four years and already had a two-year-old daughter.
Three months after they met, the couple began dating, often staying nights at the most expensive digs in Wenzhou. Over two years, the pair got a room together more than 380 times, averaging at about once every two days.
Du also bought Chen his own car and often took him traveling to Hong Kong and Hainan. When Chen quit his day job to go into the cosmetics business, Du entirely financed his efforts.
Chen's mugshot
In March 2014, Du was unaccountably promoted to head of sales, responsible for reporting the sales of every one of the company's employees to upper management. The supermarket's daily intake was divided into cash and credit card sales, and in her reports Du would diminish the former and exaggerate the latter.
To her superiors, the overall numbers looked the same; but Du was putting all that extra cash into her own pocket. This way, Du could make off with as much as RMB10,000 in a single day. When her family asked where all this money was suddenly coming from, she told them she had won the lottery.
Du's bosses finally noticed something was awry in their revenues and expenses last year. After investigating the discrepancies, Chen, Du and Du's family fessed up and returned RMB1.1 million in gold, cash, watches, cars and property.
In court, Du is said to have confessed to every detail of her duplicitous scheme but won't believe that she really went through that much money - she reckons she only took "about RMB2 million."
Although Du turned herself in, inconsistencies in her and Chen's testimony have aroused further suspicions. Du initially said she was just following Chen's order but then retracted this, insisting he had nothing to do with the financial fraud. Chen, meanwhile, was arrested on suspicion of concealing evidence and is currently out on bail.
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