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?In my opinion, this is his fault entirely, and no one else should be responsible. Money sent to him by mistake is like someone forgot his wallet full of money at your place. Would you start gambling it away?
So, I disagree with those saying, if the money wasn't sent to him there would be no problem. All of us make mistakes, but life would be much easier if others were helping us to correct it, instead of taking advantage of it.
In the case of the person sending that money to his account that was just a mistake, it would be interesting to know why the mistake happened but I do not think heavy consequences should come to that person, however in the case of the gambler that squandered that money without a doubt he committed a crime and he needs to pay for it, not only by repaying the money that he claimed as his own when he knew that was not the case but by spending some time in jail.
You would pay the price on what you had committed since its not your money that you had spent which its really understandable that you would need to pay on what you had used even its an accident on where
those funds do sent into your account.There might be some argumentation but it wont really be that much effective if we do talk about on legal process. You dont have the rights on
spending up money which isnt yours considering that banks could make out reversible transactions then you could always have those kind of complaints and clarifications if you do see
that your account does have big fund on it and boggling on where those funds came from.