A municipal official in Japan mistakenly wired the town of Abu's entire COVID-19 relief budget, nearly $360,000, to a single recipient on the list of low-income households eligible to receive the money. After promising to return the accidental payment, the man told police that he had lost the money in online casinos
A municipal official in a rural Japanese town mistakenly wired the entire COVID relief budget, nearly $360,000, to a single recipient, who then gambled it away.
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