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The head of a bank apologized for the first time on the 16th for the case of a female employee stealing the contents of safe deposit boxes worth over a billion yen. The case involves a Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee who was dismissed in November for stealing the contents of safe deposit boxes belonging to about 60 people from two branches in Tokyo for about four and a half years from April 2020, with a total market value of over a billion yen. President Hanzawa held his first press conference on the issue on the afternoon of the 16th and apologized, saying, "This shakes the foundations of the banking business, and I sincerely apologize." He also revealed that the employee was a woman in her 40s who was responsible for managing the safe deposit boxes, and that she had repeatedly stolen using a spare key she had. Mitsubishi UFJ Bank said it is possible that dozens of other customers may have been victims, and that it is rushing to confirm the case and will take measures to prevent recurrence, such as managing spare keys centrally at headquarters rather than at branches. FNN Prime Online https://www.fnn.jp/