A Japanese bus driver with 29 years of service has lost its retirement bonus, for a value of 73,000 euros, after having stolen the equivalent of 6 euros at the price of passenger tickets.
The city of Kyoto dismissed the man, whose name was not revealed, after he was filmed by the security camera of his bus in the process of diverting 6 euros (1,000 yen) in 2022.
The driver continued the city in court, after his departure compensation for more than 73,000 euros (more than 12 million yen) was denied. Condemned in the first instance, the man first saw his judgment canceled in appeal, the court believed that the sanction was excessive.
But on Thursday, the Supreme Court made a final sentence in favor of the city and restored the initial sanction, judging that its behavior could affect public confidence in the system and the good management of the bus service.
Filmed, the man denied the facts
At the time of the incident, a group of five passengers had climbed the bus and had to pay 1,150 yen. Then, the driver asked the group to deposit 150 yen in pieces in the collection box, and had accepted in hand a ticket of 1,000 yen (or six euros) that he did not declare.
Although filmed, the man, rebuked several times for several incidents according to the court ruling, tried to deny the facts during an interview with his superior.
“Each bus driver works alone and manipulates public money. We take this diversion act very seriously,” Kyoto’s public transport office in Shinichi Hirai said Friday.
Source: BFM TV
