A district court handed the defendant a prison term of three years, but suspended for five, on the grounds that he expressed remorse for his actions and the money was returned.
A man in western Japan has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for computer fraud after he received in error 46.3 million yen in COVID-19 relief money from his town and sent it to a separate account to play in online casinos. The Yamaguchi District Court on Tuesday gave…
Everyone probably remembers the incident earlier this year in which a single man was accidentally issued an amount of COVID-19 relief money equal to that intended for every citizen of Abu Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture. After discovering the 46.3 million yen in his bank account, Sho Taguchi very quickly began placing bets with…