85 million yen in cash stored at a police station Theft of former police inspector for death Theft of documents Hiroshima February 14, 15:57
Three years ago, at the Hiroshima Central Police Station in Hiroshima City, a police officer was in charge of investigating a fraud case in which more than 85 million yen of cash was stolen as evidence of the fraud case. As a result, I sent documents on suspicion of theft.
In May 2017, at the Hiroshima Central Police Station, it was found that 8,572,000 yen of cash of evidence of a fraud case kept in the safe of the accounting section was stolen, and the police considered the crime as an internal crime and conducted an investigation. I proceeded.
As a result, as Chief of the Police Department's Life Safety Division, he was in charge of investigating fraud cases, and Judge Wakimoto (at that time, 36), who was found dead at home about four months after the discovery of theft, was involved. On the 14th, she sent documents on suspected theft with the suspect killed.
According to investigators, the former inspector had owed several colleagues several hundred million yen in debt and repaid one after another before the theft was discovered.
To date, no stolen cash has been found, and police believe it has been used to repay debt.
The former assistant police officer was seconded to Hiroshima Prefecture in April 2017, one month before the incident was discovered, and had been arbitrarily heard from the police before dying, but denied involvement. .