Papers on baseball player sent to prosecutors for alleged stealing

Saturday 28th June, 06:54 AM JST

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KyouNoNippon at 11:13 AM JST - 28th June

Jerk.
timorborder at 02:46 PM JST - 28th June

I find this story a little strange because of my own personal experience. A couple of year's ago, I used an ATM while nursing my son. When I finished my transaction, I took the bank card with one hand and put it in my pocket. However, I was too slow regarding taking my withdrawal and the machine swallowed it. The ATM then automatically shut down until an attendant came and asked me what was wrong. Moreover, the guy refused to give me my withdrawal until he had checked the ATM's record (a time consuming experience). As such, I would assume that the money in question in this story was left in the vicinity of the ATM, rather than in it. I would also assume that this Uemoto dude was busted by surveillance footage.
haytkayokomiya at 07:37 AM JST - 29th June

Doesn't he get paid enough?
borscht at 09:12 AM JST - 29th June
Uemoto took the money, then told his employers he took the money, and his employers reprimanded him. And Uemoto repaid the victim. In December, 2007. And the police are sending him to prosecutors now? Seven months later?

Two questions.
1. How did Uemoto find the victim to repay? Unless he grabbed the guy's wallet, too. Timorborder has a point about leaving money IN an ATM.
2. Did it really take the police seven months to solve this already solved crime?
Altria at 10:00 AM JST - 30th June

As a player whose role is specifically to prevent stealing, I find this case of corruption appalling.
asdfghjkl at 10:19 AM JST - 30th June

Finders keepers if you ask me, although I'd probably give it to a good charity. If you are dumb enough to leave that much money, you sort of deserve it. Plus if you take it to the police, they're probably so corrupt they would take the money themselves.