Bandai Namco Employee Steals 4,400 Phones Over Seven Years, Profiting 600 Million Yen

A bombshell dropped in the gaming community today: A Bandai Namco employee was caught embezzling 4,400 company-owned phones over a span of seven years, netting an estimated 600 million yen in illegal profits.

Community members are stunned, calculating that the perpetrator moved an average of 52 phones per month—about two per day. Netizens mockingly label this level of dedication 'the golden standard of persistence,' while others are baffled by the lack of internal auditing, questioning how a company could fail to notice such massive inventory losses for seven years. It’s truly a bizarre start to the year for the Japanese giant.