Man in Japan Gambles COVID Town Funds Mistakenly Sent to Him
The money was supposed to be COVID-19 assistance for low-income households in a small Japanese town.
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TOKYO (AP) — The money was supposed to be COVID-19 assistance for low-income households in a small Japanese town, but it was mistakenly wired to a bank account of a resident who refused to return it and spent most of it on online gambling, police said. Sho Taguchi, a 24-year-old jobless resident in the town of Abu in western Japan, was arrested on Wednesday, Yamaguchi prefectural police said. Police said Thursday he admitted to spending…