TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese financial giant Nomura Holdings said on Thursday that a former employee at its brokerage unit had been arrested on suspicion of fraud.
The crimes were alleged to have occurred in January 2024, Nomura said in a statement.
Kyodo News reported that the 30-year-old suspect is accused of having stolen 10 million yen ($65,690) from a woman in her 70s, telling her it would be invested in an interest-bearing savings fund. The suspect left the firm last June, it added.
Another former Nomura employee was charged with crimes including attempted murder and robbery in November, prompting a public apology from the company’s head.
And in late October, Japan’s banking regulator slapped Nomura with a 21.8 million yen penalty after an investigation determined that a trader manipulated the price of 10-year bond government futures contracts in March 2021.
($1 = 152.2300 yen)
(Reporting by Anton Bridge and Rocky Swift; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
