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Rakuten Mobile, actual loss of 10 billion yen in fraud case, former general manager leading padded billing?

The Metropolitan Police Department believes that the former general manager was involved in the calculation of the padded billing amount and led the case.

 According to the investigators, the total amount of fraudulent claims by the former general manager, Tomonori Sato, 46, and others amounted to approximately 30 billion yen over a period of more than two years until December 2021. The Metropolitan Police Department has examined the claims closely and found that nearly 10 billion yen of this amount is the loss suffered by Rakuten Mobile due to padded claims for fictitious storage fees, transportation costs, and other operations that did not actually exist. The remaining approximately 20 billion yen was compensation for transactions, but the transactions themselves were determined to be fraudulent.

　The padding of the bill was reportedly done to Rakuten Mobile by Nippon Logistics, which was commissioned to provide logistics services for Rakuten Mobile's cell phone base station development project. Sato presented an untruthful invoice to Osamu Hamanaka, 49, president of TRAIL, a logistics company to which Nippon Logistics had subcontracted the work. The billing source was a corporation represented by his wife, and the suspect was said to have been refluxing the illegally obtained money under the guise of transactions with TRAIL.

　On May 5, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department sent the suspects, Sato and Hamanaka, and Kazunari Mitsuhashi, 53, former managing director of Nippon Logistics, who was also arrested on suspicion of fraud, to prosecutors. (Keita Yamaguchi and Masayuki Takashima)

Source: https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/bb1725f0dd087972c0aefcbbabd058b391d34e08