Tax official and six others arrested over COVID-19 aid fraud in Japan

Kohei Tsukamoto, a Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau official, is taken by police to prosecutors in Tokyo on Thursday.  | KYODO

Tokyo police have arrested a group of seven, including a 24-year-old official of the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau, on fraud charges related to a government COVID-19 relief program, investigative sources said Thursday. The Metropolitan Police Department believes the group swindled the government out of as much as ¥200 million in benefits aimed at helping smaller

Ex-Japan Life chairman given eight years in prison in massive fraud case

Takayoshi Yamaguchi | VIA KYODO

” Yamaguchi “is worthy of strong criticism,” the judge said.Asaka suggested that Japan Life won contracts by preying on individualss concerns about their post-retirement lives.Yamaguchi took advantage of his control over the business and made employees work to conclude brand-new agreements with clients even though the business was dealing with financial troubles, the judge stated.

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