In the case where a 24-year-old resident living in the town was arrested for transferring a part of the 46.3 million yen benefit that was mistakenly transferred from Abu Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture to another account, the transferred money was settled in three ways. Interviews with related parties revealed that the withdrawals were repeatedly made to the agency.
Police are investigating the flow of money in more detail, saying that they used the money at online casinos in response to the investigation.
Sho Taguchi, an unemployed person in Abu Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture, (24) used an online payment service to settle payments from his account on behalf of the country's extraordinary special benefit of 46.3 million yen, which was transferred from the town last month. There is a suspicion of computer fraud, alleging that 4 million yen of this was transferred to the trader's account.
According to people familiar with the matter, Taguchi withdrew the full amount of 46.3 million yen that was transferred 34 times during the 11 days from the 8th to the 18th of last month when the town mistakenly transferred it.
At that time, he repeatedly withdrew to three payment agents and used "debit payment", which is immediately debited when used.
According to the police, the police are investigating the flow of money in more detail, saying that "the money was used at the online casino" etc. in response to the investigation.