Cash problems at Post Offices impacts Japanese customers

“Postmasters and other Japan Post Holdings Co. employees embezzled 2.01 billion yen in fiscal 2009, including from customer savings accounts, it was learned Friday...Workers committed more than 1,000 violations last fiscal year, 42 of which involved misappropriating cash.”

Source: Postal Workers Stole Y2bn In FY09
The Nikkei
Saturday, April 24, 2010
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