It turned out that Rakuten Mobile had dismissed this employee on a disciplinary basis, saying that the employee was colluding with a business partner and illegally embezzling money in work related to the maintenance of mobile phone base stations.
According to people involved, Rakuten Mobile was involved in the maintenance of mobile phone base stations, and its employees colluded with a client company to fraudulently embezzle money in the form of inflating costs. about it.
Rakuten Mobile announced on the 2nd that there was an employee's misconduct, and announced that the employee was dismissed on August 12th and that he had filed a criminal complaint with the police.
Employee fraud was uncovered in an internal investigation.
On the other hand, the content of the business and transactions, as well as the amount of damage, cannot be disclosed because it would interfere with the investigation.
This business partner company has its head office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and is "Nippon Logistics", which transports parts related to the maintenance of mobile phone base stations. I approve the provisional seizure of 400 million yen that was in the account.
After that, on August 30, this company applied to the court for application of the Civil Rehabilitation Law.
The Rakuten Group commented, "We take the misconduct very seriously, and will work to prevent recurrence by further strengthening our internal control system and conducting thorough compliance training."