Embezzlement of $4.3M earns former trucking employee 150 felonies

A former trucking company employee has been charged with 150 felonies after stealing $4.3 million over the course of seven years.

43-year-old Darinder Dyal has been accused of embezzling the money from a Union City, California trucking company between January 2015 and May 2022.

According to KRON4 , Dyal allegedly set up a company gas card in order to secretly write checks to himself. Dyal then used the money to fund a luxurious lifestyle including vacations, sports tickets, retail purchases, and “near-constant gambling.”

“We have filed charges and enhancements, including the aggravated white-collar crime enhancement and the money laundering enhancement, that are appropriate given the size of the theft and the betrayal of these vulnerable victims,” said Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. “My office will not let embezzlers prey on Alameda County’s small business community.”

Dyal is facing 89 counts of grand theft by embezzlement and 65 counts of money laundering. He is also charged with perjury after claiming under oath that he had won $10,000 per month gambling in an attempt to hide his use of stolen funds.

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