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A balding bank clerk in Hong Kong is in police custody after getting caught stealing $43,000 from a client’s dormant bank account.
According to court testimony, Alex Chan (32) stole the money to pay for hair loss treatments because he was “terrified of going bald”.
You might want to know why a man would need to steal money to pay for his hair loss treatments instead of just using his own money. Well the answer is that Alex had already racked up debts of more than $16,000 on anti-balding treatments.
Chan’s fear of going bald apparently drove him to steal money from the dormant bank account at DBS, the bank where he worked. He had intended to use the stolen money to pay off his previous debt and to buy more hair loss treatments.
His defense lawyer David Boyton told Hong Kong’s Eastern Court that Chan committed the crime out of “vanity, not greed,” and appealed for him to be spared a lengthy jail term.
Chan, who has since paid back all the money he stole, was remanded in custody until May 17 when he is scheduled to be sentenced, Thursday’s South China Morning Post reported.
The magistrate, William Ng, has requested that a psychological report on Chan’s fear of hair loss be prepared before he decides how to punish him.
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