Saturday 08th January, 07:29 AM JST
TOKYO —
The Japan International Cooperation Agency has reprimanded two Japanese police officers assisting the Philippine National Police for fraudulent reimbursement claims for personal wining and dining expenses, Japanese police authorities said Friday.
The state-run JICA issued the reprimand last month on a 44-year-old senior superintendent at the National Police Agency, who worked as a manager for Japan’s cooperation with the PNP, and a 50-year-old inspector at the Kyoto prefectural police.
The NPA had the senior superintendent return home last month and reprimanded by the NPA chief, instead of a stricter punishment, as the amount of money involved was small, while the Kyoto police admonished the inspector Thursday and will have him return home next week.
They were the first police officers punished by the JICA since Japanese police authorities started sending officers to the Philippines in 1980 to offer technical assistance for investigation, according to the JICA, which implements projects overseas with Japan’s official development aid.
The Japanese police authorities said the two police officers used dozens of receipts they received through private eating and drinking with fellow Japanese police officers from last July through September to fraudulently charge about 10,000 pesos (about 20,000 yen) by alleging that the expenses were spent in meetings with the Philippine police.
The fraud was found in JICA’s in-house investigation last October before the actual reimbursements were made.
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