A huge theft case by a former Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee. The damage is estimated to be 1.7 billion yen, but let's look at why the damage has ballooned so much. It has become clear how the money and valuables were stolen and moved. Suspect Yukari Imamura (46), who was heavily in debt, took advantage of her position as a safe deposit box manager at the bank to commit the crime using customers' spare keys. Let's take a closer look. First, she stole cash from safe deposit box 1. The stolen cash was intended to repay debts from FX investments and horse racing, and she was trying to get back the amount she had lost. However, this did not work out, and the cash was reduced or gone. When this happened, the contents of safe deposit box 1 became empty or reduced. What Imamura did in this situation was to steal money from safe deposit box 2 and use it to supplement safe deposit box 1, so to speak, she began a kind of running a business on a shoestring. Now, the money or valuables in safe 2 are gone, and Imamura plans to turn the gold bars into cash to make up for the money in safe 2. He then sets his sights on the gold bars in safe 3. He takes the stolen gold bars to a pawn shop, deposits them at the pawn shop, and then converts the gold bars into cash. He puts the cash back into safe 2, restoring it to its original state. It is entirely possible that the owner of safe 3 will come to retrieve the gold bars, but when an unexpected customer comes, the safe deposit box is turned off and pretends that the system is broken. However, it is possible that a customer will come again and say, "I'll come again next Wednesday. Please let me open it then." In such a case, it is possible that he somehow managed to make cash on hand, took that cash to the pawn shop, used the cash to buy the gold bars, and put them back into safe 3. It is surprising that the crime went undetected for so long, but it is believed that when carrying out the crime, he selected the targets to steal by investigating the contents and frequency of use of the bank's safe deposit boxes. Aoi Minoru anchor: Mitsubishi UFJ Bank's president Hanzawa and others have already admitted and apologized for the flaws in the management system for the spare keys to the safe deposit boxes, but the bank's management system and responsibility will be questioned, right? SP anchor Patrick Harlan: The person himself is the most at fault, but I think it can also be analyzed as an "incident caused by a lack of imagination". In other words, when the system was created, couldn't they imagine what would happen if a bad person were in that position? If they are going to create a duplicate key, they have to imagine what would happen if a bad person got hold of it and create the system. Japan is wonderful because it operates on the assumption that people are fundamentally good, but strangely enough, we don't need the assumption that people are fundamentally bad to create a bank system. We need the assumption that people are fundamentally bad. Aoi Minoru anchor: Of course the suspect is at fault, but I think the basic principle of a bank is that you can deposit your money with confidence, so I would like the bank to take thorough measures to prevent recurrence so that the money doesn't disappear. FNN Prime Online https://www.fnn.jp/