A former procurement supervisor at Tse Sui Luen Jewelry in Hong Kong has pleaded responsible to stealing diamonds worth greater than HK$11 million (US$1.4 million) from suppliers over six years by manipulating consignment data to fund his gambling behavior.
The Excessive Courtroom heard on Monday that Mui Ka-fai, 63, obtained small diamonds from the jeweller’s common suppliers and resold them a couple of times a month for revenue between 2017 and 2023. He pleaded responsible to three counts of theft.
An investigation discovered that he was concerned within the theft of 2,557 carats of diamonds valued at HK$11.1 million.
Mui started working for Tse Sui Luen Jewelry in 1988 and was the one worker liable for procuring small diamonds from totally different suppliers.
Underneath the settlement between the suppliers and the jeweller, diamonds equipped for inspection and examination had to be returned upon the suppliers’ request.
Every alternate was recorded on consignment kinds, which Mui was liable for coming into into the corporate’s pc system.
