OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 62-year-old accounting supervisor accused of siphoning tens of millions of yen from his employer to lavish on-line tips about feminine reside streamers.
According to the Sankei Shimbun (Oct. 22), the large theft that in the end drove the corporate out of business.
Yoshinori Kikuno, a resident of Daito City, was arrested by the Fuse Police Station on suspicion {of professional} embezzlement, authorities introduced on October 22.
Upon his arrest, Kikuno admitted to the allegations and revealed the true scale of his crimes. “I embezzled more than 200 million yen,” he reportedly instructed investigators.
When requested about his motives, Kikuno confessed that the stolen funds have been squandered on private leisure and on-line “Super Chats” or digital tricks to feminine content material creators.
According to police, Kikuno exploited his place as the top of accounting for an industrial equipment producer based mostly in Higashiosaka City. When processing bulk wire transfers to a number of official enterprise companions, Kikuno would discreetly slip his personal checking account data into the batches, permitting him to bypass detection.
The official arrest prices allege that Kikuno fraudulently transferred roughly 59 million yen from the corporate’s accounts to his personal throughout greater than 60 separate transactions over a six-month interval between March and September.
The embezzlement was lastly uncovered when the corporate launched an inside investigation after noticing suspicious discrepancies in its accounting ledgers. Police accepted a prison grievance from the agency in April of final yr.
The huge monetary hemorrhage proved to be a deadly blow to the producer, which has since gone bankrupt as a result of extreme affect of Kikuno’s actions.