BANK OF JAPAN BANKNOTE SERIAL NUMBER SCHEME HALTED 上市 Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 48, November 28, 2004, Article 6
BANK OF JAPAN BANKNOTE SERIAL NUMBER SCHEME HALTED
On November 24, Dow Jones newswires published a report
that The Bank of Japan said Wednesday had punished five
employees for illegally obtaining new banknotes with
special serial numbers such as a specific number lineups."The BOJ said the four female and one male rank-and-file
employees are from the section in charge of issuing
banknotes at the central bank's Maebashi branch in Gunma
Prefecture. They cooperated and obtained 11 new notes with
special characters between Nov. 5 and Nov. 15 by
exchanging them for new notes with non-characteristic
serial numbers they had obtained earlier, Kyodo reported.The five said they wanted to have the special notes for
the sake of "commemoration" and denied intending to sell
them on the collectors' markets at higher prices, the
central bank said, Kyodo reported.The BOJ punished them by suspending them from the office
or by cutting their salaries."- 2004-11-28
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