Three gold bars worth about 15 million yen were stolen from a Chinese woman in Tokyo’s Ginza district on Thursdsay.
Police said they received a call at around 11:30 a.m. on Thursday from a Chinese woman in her 40s who claimed her gold bars, weighing about one kilogram each, had been stolen, Fuji TV reported. The woman had visited the shop of a precious metal wholesaler at around 11 a.m. located within a commercial building in Ginza. There, she said she met up with “a male acquaintance who was introduced by a friend” to exchange the gold bars for cash. However, the man took the gold bars and fled.
The woman told police it was the first time she had met the thief, who had been recommended to her by her friend.
© Japan Today
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Kobe White Bar Owner
Walking around with gold bars, she was asking for it!
Disillusioned
Her friend obviously knows the thief. It shouldn't take long for the cops to round him up.
commanteer
I think there is more to this story than the woman is letting on. A friend introduced the robber? She meets up alone with a man she has never met holding 15 million in gold? Doesn't quite sound right.
mgwilder
Oh, I am looking forward to the follow-up story on this one!
Mlodinow
The Japanese fascination with keeping gold as a storage of wealth is fueled by the prolonged ridiculous interest (and sometimes even negative) interest rates. Hurry up and fix the economy so that silly incidents like this happen less often.
I do like how the story says "claimed her gold bars were stolen" like the author doesn't believe her.
Goodlucktoyou
if you watch Japanese tv, the recent news is about people illegally bringing gold into the country. i wonder if this is why the back door way of selling?
pacint
Avoid the 8 percent tax.