What to do if you become a millionaire overnight

At a steel factory in the Russian Chelyabinsk region, some workers who became millionaires suddenly or "overnight" were the result of a technical error in the accounting department that transferred huge sums of money to these workers. One of them said that instead of receiving 50 thousand rubles, which is his usual monthly salary, he received 5 million rubles, which is equivalent to about 50 thousand dollars, while another received 8 million rubles.

The workers did not report a mistake, and believed it was a "reward for their outstanding performance at work." The total number of workers who received 100 times the salary is unknown, according to the Russian news website, which indicated that the incident sparked controversy about how to deal with this error.

Some of these workers who became millionaires suddenly or "overnight" as the Russian news site Sputnik said, some of them rushed to buy a new "mobile" for their wife, and others decided to travel for a vacation, but if you were in their place "what would you do?"

According to the head of the Bar Association, Ilya Filatov, the company will be able to return the overpaid money through the court, but only if it can prove that there was a technical error.

Noting that nothing is clear at all.. The employer can, of course, win a decision in his favor in court, but the trial may last a long time, and pass through all the authorities, all the way to the Supreme Court," saying "Even if the employer wins the case and gets a court order to collect the money, the employee can declare bankruptcy."

The head of the Bar Association also recalled a similar case that occurred last year, where an employee at the factory received 1.7 million rubles instead of 17 thousand as a salary, but the employee refused to return the money, and the court ruled in his favor, and then the appeal confirmed this decision.