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Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 47-year-old former employee of Yamato Transport Co, a major parcel delivery company in Japan, for allegedly stealing 20 diamonds from a package last year. The stolen diamonds were worth about 12,520,000 yen.
According to police, Joji Yakata stole the parcel containing 20 rough diamonds from the delivery center at Yamato’s Osaka Main Branch Office in late July last year, Kyodo News reported. At the time, he was working as the group leader at the branch.
Police said the diamonds were shipped from a jewelry processing company in Tokyo to a firm in Osaka. Police said Yakata sold the diamonds but some have been recovered. No other information on the rest of the diamonds was released.
Police are also investigating a separate claim from Yamato Transport concerning the possibility of an employee stealing packages this April. Yakata was fired in May and police are questioning him about those thefts as well.
© Japan Today
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dagon
Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 47-year-old former employee of Yamato Transport Co, a major parcel delivery company in Japan, for allegedly stealing 20 diamonds from a package last year. The stolen diamonds were worth about 12,520,000 yen.
Artificially inflated cartel commodity and minimum wage delivery worker.
A potent combination.
NOMINATION
and I bet you the sender wrote diamonds on the package slip and 12 million yen in value thinking nothing would ever happen. If you are making that type of money, how about taking the items yourself instead of using a public company?
Rodney
Surely they have security cameras. I got sent some gift vouchers, but had to pick up from the depot because drivers can’t deliver money. Same company.
Sven Asai
That’s just the Pareto function perfectly illustrated.
Harry_Gatto
It's only a short article and doesn't take long to read:
purple_depressed_bacon
Why would you not use a specialized courier or logistics company to move such valuables? Bit peculiar if you ask me.
garypen
That was my first thought. 12mil yen? You send an employee on the shinkansen.
How does that sentence disqualify Nomination's comment? His comment is still very much valid.
NOMINATION
That is not what I am saying. I am saying with that type of value being sent, why would you use Yamato which is a public delivery service with employees making average salaries? They could have carried the diamonds themselves to Osaka.
Dango bong
the fact he thought nobody would notice is hilarious.
cops: "about $100,000 worth of diamonds was stolen from a package that came through here. You know anything?"
dude: "Nope"
cops: "OK thanks"
gabrial888
So stupid to attempt this larceny. It's easy to narrow down those who are involved in the transport of the said valuables. Mind-bogglingly airheaded simpleton thief gets his just deserts.