Former MUFG Bank banker arrested over safe deposit box theft

Ex-employee accused of stealing gold bars from customers, sources say

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MUFG Bank is part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Japan's biggest banking group. © Reuters

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A former employee of MUFG Bank was arrested Tuesday over the alleged theft of valuables from customers' safe deposit boxes, police investigative sources said.

Yukari Imamura, 46, is suspected of stealing around 20 kilograms of gold bars worth around 260 million yen ($1.6 million) deposited by two male customers at the bank's Nerima branch in Tokyo around September last year, the sources said.

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