A bank employee who stole more than 900,000 yuan (US$108,740) from a customer's savings account is now in police custody, Beijing Youth Daily reports.

Qiao Libo took advantage of his position and copied a deposit book belonging to Chen, a customer. He then succeeded in guessing the man's PIN by entering Chen's birthdate at an ATM.

After initially withdrawing 350,000 yuan (US$42,290), Qiao put 10,000 yuan (US$1,200) back into Chen's account to try to cover up his crime.

But the following month, he withdrew all 900,000 yuan left in the account, using it to buy a car, a house, a notebook computer and a digital camera.

Chen discovered the missing funds when he went to the bank to withdraw some money.

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