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Dear [gedaagde 1],
In connection with your suspension with pay pending investigation of manipulation of pay-off transactions of customers and the issuance of new loans to the same in the Shaba branch and the irregularities with our loan procedures that these acts entail, we hereby inform you as follows.
As you are aware, retention loans are only granted under certain conditions. One of those conditions being for Former Customers, that the customer's previous loan must have been completely paid offpriorto the customer applying for such loan, and for Present Customers, that the Customer's loan must be within six months of complete pay-off. You are also aware of our procedure that all amounts over Afl.5.000 in the cash register, must be immediately transferred to Cashier 00.
On February 17. 2017, [Naam X] was granted a loan in the morning, [Naam X] was seen leaving the branch with a loan check. In the afternoon, [Naam X] was seen visiting our branch once again and later that day the payment of [Naam X] was made in the amount of All. 4.230,--.while this was registered in the morning, this payment was only received and transferred to Cashier 00 in the afternoon, after the second visit of [Naam X].
When further investigating this matter, the following was established. [Naam X] was granted a retention loan on February 17. 2017. This loan was registered under loan number [leningnummer 1]. Our investigation also shows that [Naam X] would have allegedly paid off her (old) loan, loan number [leningnummer 2] on that same day, February 17, 2017, before being granted the retention loan. However, when we spoke with [Naam X] regarding this matter, [Naam X] stated that she visited our Shaba branch to request for a renewal of her loan. She would have informed that she could obtain more money by paying out her loan and opening a new one. According to her, she was granted the new loan, instructed to go the bank, cash out the check and come back to pay off her balance on the previous loan. This is in violation of our procedures:
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Incorrect information was registered in our administration when granting said loan: loan [leningnummer 2] was registered as being paid off. prior to processing the new loan [leningnummer 1]. while at that time no payment had been received for loan [leningnummer 2];
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The receipt of the amount of Afl. 4.230.--. was registered in our administration, while no payment had been received at that time.
When further investigating this matter, we established several other accounts in which retention loans were granted on the same day that the balance of the previous loan was paid off. During our investigation we spoke with several of these customers. At least one other customer gave a similar statement as the one of [Naam X]: he was granted a retention loan before he paid off his previous loan. He was instructed to go the bank, cash out the check, and then go back to our branch to pay off the balance on the previous loan. You processed the loan and payment of one of these customers. loan number [leningnummer 3].
Our investigation Further shows that on December 29. 2016, you booked a loan for customer [Naam Y]. [Naam Y] however was not eligible for a loan, since he defaulted on a previous loan, which loan had to be written off. Based on our investigation it was established that you entered an incorrect ID number for this client in our system and that you failed to verify this client's entity placing a copy of his I.D. in the file. If you had followed the verification process correct. you should have discovered that the I.D. number provided by the customer was incorrect and that the no loan could be granted to this customer since he had defaulted on a previous loan.
When heard regarding these irregularities, (GEA: you) could not give a valid reason for your actions as mentioned above. According to you, the customer paid off his previous loan, after which he was granted his new loan. This however contradicts the statement issued by the customer in question. You could not give any reason for not requesting copy of a valid I.D. prior to granting this loan.
Your actions as described above are a serious violation of our procedures. You granted customers retention loans while they did not meet the requirements for such loans by resorting to irregular actions. You registered information in our administration which you knew was incorrect, in order to grant customers loans they did not qualify for, thereby also earning commission over loans which were granted against procedures. You further registered the receipt of money in our administration. while at that time no money had been received. Lastly, you failed to follow our identity verification procedures prior to granting a loan.
The above-mentioned incidents, all individually and jointly, are considered a serious breach of your responsibilities arising from your labor agreement. The abovementioned incidents, each individually and jointly, have caused us to lose all trust in you and - each individually and jointly - are considered an urgent reason for the immediate termination of your labor agreement as per today, March 28. 2017.