Mizuho Bank clerk cut, spliced used stamps to make new ones www.tokyoreporter.com

posted by  banzaitokyo | 8 years, 3 months ago

A male clerk at Mizuho Bank stuck together pieces of used stamps to forge fakes so he could exchange them with real stamps he likely swapped for cash, police said Friday.

Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested Takashi Kobayashi, 57, for allegedly exchanging 30 fake stamps denominated at 350 yen each for 21 real stamps with a face value of 500 yen each at a post office in Chiyoda Ward on September 30, 2016, the Asahi Shimbun reports (Jan. 27).

Kobayashi, who has been accused of fraud and violating the Postal Law, admits to the charges, police said, adding he cut postmarks from stamps and spliced them together with pieces of others to give the impression they were unused.