Business Partner: Takuro Yanagida and Mr Kotani

business partner: Cash-strapped Takuro Yanagida, 23, was visiting Melbourne in October 2018 with his boss Gohsuke Kotani, who ran a sports marketing business, according to Nine News Australia. But as Mr Kotani, his wife and business partner slept at their hotel, Yanagida used a key to unlock his employer's suitcase before taking nearly half of the 300,000 cash stashed inside. To improve your experience update it here News National Worker blows sleeping boss's cash at Crown By AAP3 13pm May 17, to a hotel room with his boss sleeping and a briefcase full of cash was too tempting for a Japanese man who has been jailed for pinching 140,000 and blowing it at Crown Casino. County Court Judge Robert Dyer described the theft as a naive, amateurish and unsophisticated act. He went to Crown Casino and exchanged the money for chips, proceeding to lose the entire sum over a four-hour period in what Judge Dyer described as a panic-driven, opportunistic crime . Yanagida initially denied what he'd done, but made full admissions after Crown Casino was called and identified him as the person who exchanged the money for chips. Yanagida had developed a precarious financial position and become involved in gambling in the months leading up to the crime. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.