Police Investigating Burned House Found IDR 40 Million And Put It Straight Into The Pocket

JAKARTA - The police are investigating a house that was burned down. Unexpectedly, the search even found money. Worse, the money was then taken.

Takashi Misono is a former police sergeant in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. He is now on probation after being found guilty of stealing cash from a house that burned down.

Quoted from Japan Today, this ruling was handed down by the Chiba District Court on Thursday, May 12.

He was proven to have stolen 358,000 yen or more than IDR 40 million from the bag of a house that was partially destroyed by a fire on September 6, 2020.

Misono admitted to stealing money from the house in Kamagaya where he was assigned at the time. He was one of several police and firefighters inspecting the damage to the home.

Police said the homeowner told them that the money had been destroyed in the fire probably.