A Tokyo Metro employee has been arrested for allegedly stealing 20,000 yen from the company's lost-and-found departments.
According to Tokyo Metro, the capital's largest subway operator, the 32-year-old employee has admitted to using the company's lost-and-found database to search for cash that had been left in the subway system.
Fuji TV reported Saturday that he then visited three stations on the Marunouchi Line, including Tokyo Station, and falsely claimed to have left the money himself in an attempt to steal 20,000 yen from those stations.
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FightingViking
Hard times... even for the employed...
paulinusa
He probably has decent job. No excuse for this.
Scnadal.Lova
Honesty is hard to find these days.
DudeDeuce
I have always found it funny when people turn in lost money here they find on the ground to the police station or train station.
"I lost 10,000yen"
"Oh, what does it look like?"
"It has Yukichi Fukuzawa's face on it"
"Let me check the back"
CrazyJoe
Can this be a tip of the iceberg?
Disillusioned
Except for the people that handed the money in, of course.
Scott Johnson
Never could understand this myself. If people are nice enough to say they found cash, for amounts under say, 3 man, just get their details and call them should anyone come forward to claim it with a credible story. For larger amounts, hold it for a week or so. There is no sense going to all that effort to try and reunite a person with petty cash. Need I say that all you do is create an atmosphere of temptation?
Gaijin Desi
Hard time for Japanese
mikihouse
chances are he is in heavy debt due to playing pachinko balls
Elbuda Mexicano
What an idiot! For a crappy 2 man en, he will get fired and through all of his career down the drain!!
nath
Now, what is Abe going to do with creating employment, increasing salaries, lowering taxes and improving social services now that he has both upper and lower houses under the LDP. Dishonesty and theft is very un-Japanese. Will Abe's economic policies and antagonism with Japan's neighbours bring about relief? Or, is the situation going to get a lot worse than before?
Patrick Hagger
greed by civil servant sounds like something that would happen in United Sates.
Fadamor
Sorry, I can't let that go without a rebuttal...
About 6 years ago, my middle school-aged step-son (a recent arrival from Russia) found a $100 bill while walking out to the school bus stop. When he got home that night he showed his mom (also recently from Russia) and I the bill. I took the bill and announced that I was going to turn it in to the police on the off chance that the person who lost it would try to claim it. Both his mom and him protested - thoroughly convinced that the cops would pocket the money - but I prevailed. The county police took the bill along with a report on where it was found and I was told to check back in six months (the time limit for claiming such things). Six months later I retrieved the bill - complete with all the pen markings that bills tend to accumulate - from the police and spent it on booze. (j/k about the booze) What I REALLY did was I gave the bill back to my dumbfounded step-son. After witnessing the rampant corruption of Russian civil servants first-hand, I was pleased that I was able to prove at least SOME civil servants are trustworthy.