A young man in Japan fled and disappeared after receiving relief payments from the emerging “Corona” virus for 463 families in his hometown last month.
The unnamed 24-year-old had received $358,857 in financial aid for people in Apo City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, which was deposited into his bank account on April 8, but he refused to return the money, according to the Japan Today news outlet. Japanese.
The money was transferred to the young man by mistake, due to a coordination problem, and once he got the money, he started transferring the total amount from his account in small daily increments, to avoid detection.
When the town authorities were able to reach the young man on April 21, he told them that the money had run out completely, and explained to them that all the money had been transferred to an account in another financial institution, and he could not return the money to the original account, and he would make up for his crime.
On May 12, the town filed a lawsuit against the young man, demanding the payment of relief funds and any legal fees, but he had disappeared from his home by then.
The young man had moved to the city of Abu in October 2020, through a government program aimed at the reconstruction of rural areas.
The townspeople described the young man as “a good, young and handsome boy”, while the owner of the house he was staying in told reporters that he had already paid his rent for the month of May.
a young man escapes with the money allocated to his hometown for relief from Corona
