A year ago, a 32-year-old former bank employee was arrested for defrauding a woman who was a customer by sending about 1 million yen in cash to another account.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that the former banker was forced to remit and withdraw tens of millions of yen in total.
Tomohiro Tokita (32), a former employee of Gunma Bank and a company employee in Hachioji, Tokyo, was arrested.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, around April 2016, when he was a bank employee, he pretended to have received a request from a woman in her 80s who was a customer in Tokyo, and tricked her into transferring approximately 1 million yen from her account to another account in her name. There are suspicions of fraud etc.
It is said that the account was managed by a company whose president was a woman, but a person involved in the company noticed a suspicious remittance and consulted the Metropolitan Police Department.
Since tens of millions of yen have been sent to and withdrawn from the remittance account, the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the suspicion that the former bank employee withdrew cash.
The Metropolitan Police Department has not disclosed the approval or disapproval.
Gunma Bank said, "It is regrettable that the former employee was arrested, and we deeply apologize. We will cooperate with the police investigation and strive to restore trust."