Town recovers 35 mil. yen in mistakenly sent COVID funds

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1. So Taguchi was lying when he said that he spent the money in casino?

2. More questions than answers.

   In what capacity did he give money to a payment processing agent? Is this saying used his credit card for the gambling or what??

   And if the agent gave the money to the town hall, does that mean the payments to the gambling site(s) were summarily cancelled? How did they take it?

   Or was there actually no gambling? WTF?

3. Does anyone actually believe this nonsense story? This is obvious embezzlement. Some young guy receives millions of yen, town “doesn’t notice” for a WHILE, instead of the guy thinking “oh shit this isn’t normal I need to tell the bank something is wrong”, he “gambles it all away” and loses the entire thing (doesn’t win even once?) and now that they find out, everyone says “oh I guess we can’t do anything about it, that’s too bad”.

   This money ended up in the pockets of multiple people likely involved in some level in the town government and/or bank and this is the fall guy, who agreed to the thing in exchange for the guarantee of protection and that he’d only have to do a bow on tv, and get a cut. Money doesn’t just disappear without a trace in the 2022 big brother surveillance state. If an investigator put a drop of effort into this they would know where the money is – it all has a paper trail. It wouldn’t be surprising if it involved in some level some sort of mafia or criminal organization.

4. This is getting very interesting 🙂