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Police in Tokyo have arrested a former Mizuho Bank employee on suspicion of stealing 52 million yen.
Police said Haruyo Ichinoseki, 40, who was previously employed at the bank’s Hiroo branch in Minato Ward, illegally withdrew 52 million yen on more than a dozen occasions from 2017 to 2019, Fuji TV reported.
During this time, Ichinoseki falsified loan documents and withdrew cash in the customers' names.
Ichinoseki was fired in October 2019 after an internal audit. The bank filled a criminal complaint against her last year and she was arrested on Feb 8.
Police said Ichinoseki has admitted to the charge and quoted her as saying she stole the money to spend on clothes and overseas trips because of pent-up stress.
© Japan Today
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Chop Chop
Why he didn't say I don't remember it?
Rob-3
hm.. almost.. close.. however:
The Japanese banking system is still very much paper based, though some do it online. It's the later verb which would make it hard to pin it on fat fingering it and a mouse that has gone crazy. :-)
I sort of have to give her some credit. Straight withdrawal or transfer of funds would be noticed by the customer immediately. A loan wouldn't be noticed for some time. It could have a deferred payment as stated in the loan documents that she authored and faked. Even if she did that, she would have to know that doing it as a loan is just delaying the inevitable.
But... as everyone has already said. Her reason was a very lame. Just blame it on pandemic. At least that would give you some cred.
Or not...
(( sigh ))
kurisupisu
There are much better ways to relieve stress than stealing 52 mill...
Gobshite
￥52 picked up randomly when leaving a bar, stress. 52 million over some years? :-)
sir_bentley28
PS4 has some games to help relieve stress! And it won't cost 52mil yen.
Realization
a prison uniform rest of life
Pukey2
Stress????!!!! Well do what I do. Yoga!
Steve
Just when you thought that you have heard every excuse under the sun, a new / creative one pops up. Greed got the better of her for sure.
Mark
Hilarious, Funny, Smart, and Stupid. must have watched wall street movie.
TARA TAN KITAOKA
Wow.
kaimycahl
She bought herself a fancy prison wardrobe, and the stress she bought will give her a nice long vacation trip to the pen.
kolohe
I hope the clothes she bought are fabulous for prison.
englisc aspyrgend
Well that was my laugh out loud for the day!
One of the best and daftest excuses I have heard for a long time :)
serendipitous1
The only three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the fact you'll be caught eventually if you steal money from a bank!
Mocheake
Some quality time in the pen won't help alleviate her pent up feeling but who cares? The rest of us will feel relieved with this thief locked up.
dagon
She forgot Rule Number One: The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One
Hiro
I think he mistaken greed for stress.
ebisen
That prize can be awarded only to people that died because of own stupidity before being able to procreate. I'm afraid petty criminals do not qualify. She'll spend sometime making cheap household items in a prison, that's all.
Seesaw7
Hello..... we all have stressful jobs too. but we don't steal ! Stupid woman.
Robert Cikki
Yup and she kept it printed inside her passbook along with her cash card.
bokuda
Just say the computer was broken,
the mouse and keyboard where moving by themselves.
indigo
just the tip of the iceberg! I believe there is a thousand bankers like that. watch OUT
Luddite
That excuse was pathetic. She should have said she was drunk.
foreignbrotherhoodarmy
There’s gonna be a lot more stress for her now isn’t there!
goldnugget
Well, clothes shopping will do it every time.
Random
Hopefully prison life will be less stressful for her.