Uitspraak
1.DE PROCEDURE
2.DE VASTSTAANDE FEITEN
In connection with your suspension with pay pending investigation of September 14, 2017 regarding possible irregularities with our loan procedures, we hereby inform you as follows.We received a complaint from an employee resorting under your management. The employee was concerned with certain irregularities taking place with loans granted to employees working for NFP Corporation N.V., d.b.a. EPS Corporation. As per the statement of this employee, customers allegedly employed by EPS Corporation only visited the branch just to pick up their loan checks at the funding stage. According to the employee, the Operations Manager of EPS Corporation, Mr. [operations manager], was often seen visiting you at the branch, delivering loan applications for customers and supporting documents for these loans.Based on this complaint, we investigated and reviewed loans that were issued to persons stating to be employed with EPS Corporation. Our investigation showed that 23 loans had been granted to customers that had falsely stated to being employed by EPS Corporation, for a total loaned amount of approximately US$ 125.000,-- out of which 17 were issued at branch 1290 under your management. EPS Corporation confirmed that it had supplied false information to our company, in order to facilitate loans for persons that did not have a "stable" job.We initially discussed this matter with you on September 20, 2017. Our initial reason for discussing this matter with you, was the fact that the majority, if not all, of these loans had been initiated by Mr. [operations manager], Operations Manager of EPS Corporation. Mr. [operations manager] sent an email to you, requesting a loan on behalf of an alleged employee. Our rules and regulations clearly state that loans initiated through third parties are not allowed. Contrary to this rule, you still accepted the loan requests, even accepted salary information submitted in word and excel format, and instructed employees resorting under your management to process the loans. According to you, you decided to process the loans that had been requested through the customer's employers, since you considered this to be "good service". Your suspension with pay pending our further investigation into this matter was prolonged.We continued our investigation and interviewed several employees resorting under your management, customers that had alleged to have been working for EPS Corporation, while in reality they were not, as well as the representatives of EPS Corporation. The following, was established:- Loans were granted, without the customer having been interviewed personally by the employee working on the loan. According to the employees resorting under your management, they had been instructed by you to process the loans, since our Country Manager, Mrs [country manager], allegedly had already given her “green light” for these loans;- After you were informed by relatives of a customer that the customer in question was not allowed to enter into any agreements, since he was legally declared incapable to do so, and informed you that the customer never worked with EPS Corporation, you failed to inform upper management and compliance department about this irregularity, nor did you investigate this irregularity or take precautionary measures to prevent such irregularity from repeating itself as established under our policies;- You had initially approved a loan to a customer that had falsely stated to being employed by, EPS Corporation, customer [client]. As per the statement of an employee resorting under your management, you knew that this customer was not employed by EPS Corporation when you approved her loan. As per the statement given by the customer to the employee in question, you knew she was working illegal ("zwart werken"),- You would have instructed employees to state that the job verification process had been completed as per procedures, while in reality it had not:- You would have instructed employees to indicate that original documents had