A former employee of one of the largest Japanese banks was sent by the Tokyo court for nine years to prison for repeated theft of golden bricks and cash worth approximately $ 2.6 million. This is stated in the decision that she had on Tuesday to be inspected by AFP, TASR writes.
Jukari Jamazaki, who worked for the financial group Mitsubishi UFJ and She was dependent on gambling, she started stealing after she was indebted as a result of trading in names and bets at horses.
His position as a representative of the head of the MUFG branch as well as confidential information, used to “dissolve the security system” and theft of gold bricks worth more than $ 330 million ($ 2.2 million) and over $ 60 million ($ 400,000) in cash from the safe boxes of his bank in 2023 and 2024.
“The circumstances of her crime are so abominable that we have rarely encountered them so far,“He wrote a judge of the Tokyo District Court in a judgment that was made on Monday.
The bank managed to recover only part of the stolen amount. According to local media, it could climb up to $ 12 million in the form of property from more than 100 customers’ mailboxes, to which she was given without their consent using replacement opening keys. MUFG said that the long -term work of Jamazaki in the sales division of the branch has led to excessive relying on it during the operation of the boxes.
According to the judge, the nine -year imprisonment is necessary, even though the defendant had previously had no registration in the criminal record and also promised to undergo treatment for gambling.
According to AFP, similar cases of theft of banks also revealed in other institutions, which led the Japanese banking association to adjust their directives relating to safety boxes. According to the new guidelines, cash can no longer be stored.
