In a series of incidents in which fisheries industry workers were caught stealing frozen bonito landed at Yaizu fishing port in Shizuoka Prefecture, the police are currently investigating the third fraudulent route, and the damage amounted to about 1.5 billion yen. was found to be the largest to date.
In addition, it was newly found that the staff received compensation for the internal investigation of the fisheries cooperative and acknowledged that they cooperated illegally.
Last month, the police arrested five new people, including the former managing director of a fishery processing company in Yaizu City, in a case where skipjack tuna landed at Yaizu fishing port was stolen, and are investigating as a third fraudulent route.
An internal survey of the Yaizu Fisheries Cooperative and other sources revealed that at least 10,000 tons of skipjack tuna was diverted via this route, worth between 1.4 billion and 1.5 billion yen.
This means that the damage caused by the other two routes is greatly exceeded.
Regarding this third route, the fisheries cooperative announced in November last year that its staff had diverted skipjack tuna under the guise of compensating for losses to marine product processing companies, but explained, "We have not received compensation." was doing.
However, according to the people involved, as a result of another interview survey in September this year, more than a dozen employees admitted that they received compensation in return for tacit approval of the diversion.
A representative of the Yaizu Fisheries Cooperative said, "As an association in charge of a market that must be fair, we are very sorry. We will cooperate with the police investigation and make sincere efforts to clarify the truth behind the series of incidents." I am commenting.