just as the title states, a man in Japan mistakenly sent 46.3m yen to his bank account which was supposed to be shared among 436 people in their town. the article says that the man gambled away the money by withdrawing 600k yen daily for two weeks and gambles it in online casinos and when the authority finally contacted him the money has already been gambled and gone. initially the man refuse to pay back the money that was mistakenly sent to him but after some time he decided to pay it back bit by bit. the town is also suing him for this incident.
you can read the full story here
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61490436now, I have a question, do you think the man is entirely at fault or someone should also be responsible?
whatever he did was a big mistake, he already knew that the funds he got were the result of a wrong send but why did he keep using it to gamble
both the sender and the recipient must be held responsible for this incident because the money is the right of the citizens