Is it religiously obligatory for me to return €40 to a colleague after I received this amount by mistake due to an administrative error by the previous supervisor, knowing that the new supervisor asked me to keep the money due to the difficulty of verifying the truth?
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You are not permitted to keep money that reached you by mistake. You must return it to its owner, the employee. The passage of time does not nullify this obligation, and it is not permissible to use deception to forfeit the right of another.
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