A Japanese developer has just been arrested for fraud releated to an online Pachinko game that took place in 2013, Tokyo Reporter reports.
"In 2013, Yuji Anamizu, 43, a former section chief at Matrix, allegedly transferred 3.25 million yen to an account he controlled by charging a subcontractor assigned to create a pachinko game a fraudulent amount," The Tokyo Reporter explains. "In carrying out the ruse, the suspect artificially inflated the budget of the project and collected the difference between that and the amount actually charged to the subcontractor. Two employees at the subcontractor were also arrested."
Allegedly police also estimate that Anamizu has used similar methods 25 other times to obtain a total of roughly 60 million yen, or roughly £421,149.