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Munich Court Jails Bank Employee for Staged Bank Heist, Orders Forfeiture of Missing Funds

The court described a deed born of misguided love to fund a boyfriend’s gambling, not the greed alleged by prosecutors.

Overview

  • Maria P., 23, was sentenced to three years and six months for theft, falsely reporting a crime and misuse of emergency calls.
  • Judges ordered the forfeiture of about €391,000, with most of the nearly €460,000 taken from the Obermenzing branch still unaccounted for.
  • She admitted letting an unknown accomplice into the vault, then pressing the alarm and giving a false robbery report that triggered a major police operation.
  • Her former boyfriend, Mahmud M., was sentenced under juvenile law to four weeks of detention for facilitation and money laundering, credited by pretrial custody.
  • Investigators seized cash at her boyfriend’s home, with reports differing on the amount, and the verdict has been reported as not yet final.