In fact, the money was belonged to my nephew, Ming Hui, who went for a two weeks holiday not long ago. Before he went for the holiday, he entrusted Heng Chiek to give the money to the church as an offering. So this amount was for God and belonged to God indeed.
The very first thing Heng Chiek did when he found out that the money was missing was to question the maid. The maid admitted that she did “touch” the clothes, but denied of any wrongdoing.
We felt that it was time to confront her, and with the help of Richard, we started to interrogate her in the afternoon. Only Richard and Heng Chiek were involved initially.
I reminded Richard to record down the conversation which can be used as an evidence should she accuses us of inappropriate acts toward her later.
Unlike me, Richard was a lot better in carrying out the investigation. A few minutes later, he came to me and said that the maid admitted she took the money. The maid also told him that the money was already given to another maid who was working for a family staying opposite of my house. She said that the money was used to pay the old handphone that she was carrying.
My wife always complained that the maid spent too much time upstairs and she really didn’t know what she was doing there. And now we know that she was in fact conducting treasure hunt instead of doing houseworks.
As we knew that she was always lying. We “summoned” – of course very politely – the neighboring maid to our house to assist in our investigation. And we were told, in front of my maid, that an amount of RM950 was passed to her(neighboring maid) to purchase a new handphone two days ago. We were also informed that my maid gave her RM600 for the old handphone long time ago, and from time to time, gave her money in the denomination of RM10 to RM50 to purchase phone cards.
She lied again!
It was very fortunate that we confronted her on Sunday, as the witness – the neighboring maid - was going back to Indonesia the next day. If we did it later, we would never know what really had happened.
We asked the maid to give us the handphones, and two of my nephews scanned through the messages in the handphones to rule out clues to potential acts that might threaten our safety. However, not much they found apart from love messages – I love you, you love me :-(
Apart from giving money to the neighboring maid, she admitted that she purchased phone cards from some other maids too. Not only this, she also gave money to other maids in the church :-(
The handphones - "confiscated" temporarily. Will return to her before she returns to Indonesia
To be continued and see you next post :-)
5 comments:
This is really too much. You must not let her get away unscathed. Due punishment must be carried out!
wao .....
her handphone batter than us ...
Even better than my mother one's...
I think it will be dangerous for her to stay at your home now...
Sir,
Why still allow her to keep the hp that is not belonged to her?
I suggest not to pay her for the remaining and current months. Take back all the money that she kept and the hp as well. Then send her back to the agent. The reason is she already spent some of the stolen money for the phone prepaid card.
I keep the handphones now, and will deduct RM600 + RM950 from her salary. This means the handphones are belong to her and should be returned to her. However, I might need to reset the handphone just in case she keep in touch some bad guys over here. I will also estimate an amount for what she spent on the phone cards and others.
Sending back to the agency is the last option. We are a little bit patient and see what happens next :-)
Post a Comment