A 24-year-old Japanese man has vanished after stealing approximately equivalent of $358,000 in Covid relief funds designated for all households in the Yamaguchi Prefecture town of Abu. According to local news outlet Japan Today, the entire cash was transmitted to him thanks to a clerical error by the town's administrators.
The funds were allocated to the 463 homes in the Japanese town last month. The individual in question was one of many who were eligible for assistance.
The local authorities, on the other hand, forwarded the names and addresses of the intended recipients to a bank, together with a transfer order. According to local media, the bank mistook the man's account information for a proxy account to which all of the funds was to be deposited before being allocated to the beneficiaries' accounts.
Hideaki Nakamura, the mayor of Abu, apologized for the clerical blunder, and town officials attempted to contact the guy to recover the funds. On April 8, the man learne...
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