Betrayed by a Colleague

My company trusted me with full financial access. For two years, tiny amounts of

money began disappearing. Nothing big. Nothing noticeable. Just small drops… here and there.

No alarms. No warnings. No one suspected a thing. Then the annual

audit hit. Twelve million dollars. Gone. Every transaction… every transfer…

every digital footprint… all traced back to my login. Before I could even understand what

was happening, police were at my desk. I was arrested that same day.

What they didn’t know— and what I didn’t know— was that the real

thief wasn’t hiding in another department… He was sitting three desks away. Watching it all