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A worker has been accidentally paid 330 TIMES for his monthly salary – and will get to keep it after winning a court battle with boss. The man had worked as an assistant at food company Dan Consorcio Industrial de Alimentos de Chile.

He usually raked in around 500,000 pesos (£386) a month for his work. But his boss accidentally sent 165 million pesos (about £127,000) to his account.

Three days later, the employee handed in his resignation, resulting in a three-year long battle. His former exmployers accused him of theft, which could have seen him handed a fine and jailed for as much as 540 days.

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But a judge in Santiago dismissed the case, ruling it was not actually theft, instead being deemed "u

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