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Japanese Man Loses Entire Town's COVID Relief Funds to Online Gambling
In a shocking turn of events, a 24-year-old man from Japan, Sho Taguchi, has been arrested for gambling away an entire town's COVID relief funds. The incident occurred in the town of Abu, in western Japan.
The total amount of money lost was 46 million yen, approximately $360,000. These funds were intended to support 460 low-income families in the town. Taguchi was included in the list of recipients but decided to gamble away all the money on foreign online gambling platforms.
When authorities realized the funds were missing, they discovered that Taguchi had already lost everything. He was promptly arrested by local police for embezzling the relief funds meant for approximately 3,300 people, with each person supposed to receive around 780$.
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