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Episode: Japan’s largest bank apologizes over theft of millions of dollars from safe deposit boxes
Description: Japan’s biggest bank apologized for the alleged theft by an employee of more than 1 billion yen ($6.6 million) from customers' safe deposit boxes.
The bank, formally known as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., said it was investigating. Verified thefts from about 20 of the 60 clients thought to have been affected amounted to 300 million yen (nearly $2 million). Compensation was being worked out, it said.
The thefts occurred at two Tokyo branches of the bank, from April 2020 until the end of October 2024, when the problem was discovered.
MUFG’s president and CEO Junichi Hanzawa told reporters the female employee responsible for managing the safe...