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Antony Thrower

Japanese man accidentally given £290k in Covid relief funds blows it all gambling

A Japanese man accidentally given more than £250,000 from a Covid relief fund gambled it away in just two weeks and has now disappeared.

More than 450 low income households were supposed to receive around £600 each from their government to help ease financial strain.

Instead, the entire fund of 46.3million Yen - £287,000- was paid into the account of an unnamed 24-year-old man.

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