QUOTE(Aegisrunestone @ Sep 2 2020, 09:48 AM)
Hmmm, but I think their case is they've cooked the books, i.e:
those workers don't even exist, and no transactions were conducted. In my case, my wife do exist, I do pay her and record every transaction.
according to this...
Simply enough, a ghost employee is someone on the payroll who doesn't actually work for a victim company.
Through the falsification of personnel or payroll records a fraudster causes paychecks to be generated to a ghost.
The fraudster or an accomplice then converts these paychecks.
The ghost employee may be a fictitious person or a real individual who simply doesn't work for the victim employer.
When the ghost is a real person, it's often a friend or relative of the perpetrator.In order for a ghost-employee scheme to work, four things must happen:
(1) the ghost must be added to the payroll,
(2) timekeeping and wage rate information must be collected,
(3) a paycheck must be issued to the ghost, and
(4) the check must be delivered to the perpetrator or an accomplice.
https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4294968370Payroll Fraud in Malaysia
Payroll fraud, as the name implies, is the theft of funds from a business via the payroll system.
It is a form of asset misappropriation and one of the most common types of fraud in businesses.
Precisely speaking, payroll fraud can be defined as the unauthorised altering of payroll where the person (an employee) committed the fraud could make financial gain.
What is Payroll Fraud?
Payroll Fraud in Malaysia
In general, employees can commit payroll fraud in several ways.
1. Ghost Employees
One of the common ways behind the payroll fraud is the existence of ghost employee. Ghost employee is the fictitious identity created by the dishonest employee, recorded on the payroll system, but does not work for the business. The fraud happened when the salary is paid to the false employee and the dishonest employee will then collect the fund.
more....
https://www.3ecpa.com.my/blog/payroll-fraud-malaysia/but for your case,...i don't have the figures...i think MANY MANY people is doing it,...some even do it with their properties...(paying high rentals to their own or relative's properties)