Doctor sues secretary for pocketing P1.4M

Charges have been filed against the secretary of a doctor after she reportedly failed to deposit in the bank her employer’s money amounting to more than P1.4 million.

Heidi Robiato, 33, was charged the other day with qualified theft and falsification of commercial documents in the Quezon City Prosecutors’ Office.

Her longtime employer, Dr. Elizabeth Israel, 60, said she became suspicious after the bank called her up and told her that a check she had issued had bounced because her account had insufficient funds.

Case investigator Police Officer 2 Hermogenes Capili of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said that when the doctor checked her bank book, she found handwritten notes detailing the deposits she had asked her secretary to make between September and earlier this week instead of the bank’s usual machine validation.

“This made the doctor doubt if the deposits were really made to her account,” Capili said. This prompted the doctor to call for help from the police which arrested her secretary in her house in Antipolo City on Tuesday night. Julie M. Aurelio