Clerk Arrested in Japan in $7.8-Million Theft
Associated Press
TOKYO —
A credit union clerk was arrested after admitting she stole $7.8 million from her company in the largest embezzlement ever reported in Japan, a police official said Sunday.
The 31-year-old clerk, an employee of the Oume Credit Union in Tokyo, said she had been sending money to her boyfriend for three years, the official said.
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