Tokyo police on Saturday arrested a former employee of Dresdner Bank's Tokyo branch on suspicion of swindling about 30 million yen from the bank.
Hitomi Sanada, 47, falsified and padded clients' bills at the German bank between February 1995 and March 1996 to obtain three checks worth a total of 30 million yen, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
She worked in the branch's administrative department at the time and paid 26 million yen to the clients and deposited the rest into her own bank account, the police said, adding that Sanada has admitted the charges, they said.
She joined the branch in 1989, but was dismissed in 1999 after the bank discovered the fraud during an internal inspection.