Japanese businessman says P400,000 in steel box at conference room missing

February 14, 2020

A Japanese businessman lost around P400, 000 after he left it inside the conference room of his company in Calamba City, Laguna.

According to Police Corporal Jonel Cristobal, investigator-on-case, Sasaki Susumo, president of Kepi Kyouritsu Electronics Philippines, reported that the money he left before leaving for Japan last January 29 for a business meeting is missing.

 Cristobal said Susumo left Y600, 000 (P300, 000) and P195, 000 inside a small steel box and placed it in his drawer inside the company’s conference room.

“According to him (victim), he is in a rush to go to Japan and cannot go back home that’s why he left the money there,” he said in a phone interview with The Daily Manila Shimbun.

The investigator said there are no CCTV cameras in the area and no traces of fingerprints were found in the steel box when they visited the office.

He said the conference room is being used by the company everyday that’s why the employees are not closing it.

Cristobal said their persons of interest right now are the company janitors.

“The secretary told us the two janitors are always going inside, one morning duty and the other is night duty,” he said. Ella Dionsio/DMS