She is beautiful, remarkable, and young in her 30s, always smiling, and knows how to keep you on a discussion. A good accountant with accurate bookkeeping skills, it started with a family-owned business, a small bookshop.
Chioma was just like every normal kid in school. Her school teacher knew she was going to become great in life. She passes all her homework, reads, and helps her daddy in the bookshop where she learned some accounting skills.
However, Chioma was everything her parents wanted. She got married to Uche Boniface at 26 they have 2 kids together, an extraordinary woman to her kids. She made sure they did their homework even when she was tired from work and sometimes Uche helps.
Working as an Accountant for over Six years, unknowing to the company she had casually stolen the sum of 40 Million naira in total and had altered some cheques and statements to conceal her embezzlement. Ironically, her employer unwittingly paid her to rob them blind.
You want to know what happened to Chioma Boniface at the end right? Wait till the end.
A lot of companies today may be going through such a predicament as this. Funny enough, Chioma can be any staff, not necessarily an Accountant but anyone in your organization. He/She can be in the position to rob your organization of a sum that will make you think of ways you would have prevented this Fraud.
Fraud prevention principle starts from the basic “Background Check” before he/she moves into your system. Yes, there are other Fraud prevention you can put in place within your system but the basic is always urgently important.
Here are some obvious reasons why your organization needs to acquire background check services to ensure sound hiring decisions:
It Highlights Criminal History, It Avoids Liability, Ensures Workplace Safety, Ensures That You Have Made the Right Decision, and affects the Button Line.
Chioma is presently in Prison for her fraud cases. And her “guarantors” are paying back the company on a monthly installment. Her husband and family are disappointed in her.
Organizations should prevent Fraud through essential fraud prevention while they implement other fraud prevention principles in their Processes and day-to-day work/transactions.
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