Last year, while a former employee of the NHK news bureau general affairs department was in office, he submitted a fictitious order to a business partner and was arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of fraud for defrauding about 4.3 million yen worth of personal computers.
NHK said that the former employee was equivalent to disciplinary dismissal in February, and commented, "We will thoroughly manage operations to prevent recurrence."
The person arrested was Takuta Okazaki (30), a former employee of the General Affairs Department of the NHK News Bureau, in Fujimino City, Saitama Prefecture.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, a former employee of Okazaki submitted a fictitious order form to a consumer electronics mass retailer in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo from September to October last year, and allegedly cheated about 4.3 million yen worth of PCs, etc. There is suspicion.
At that time, the former employee was in charge of the maintenance and management of equipment in the bureau, and retired on request in November last year before the fraud was discovered, NHK made it equivalent to disciplinary dismissal in February, and then filed a criminal accusation. Was there.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, he admitted to the investigation and stated that he had a large amount of debt and wanted money.
NHK commented, "We deeply apologize to all the viewers. We will continue to cooperate with the police investigation. We will thoroughly manage our business to prevent recurrence."