Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe , Japan, July 18 (UPI) -- A Japanese bank that handed over a man's life savings to a thief must repay most of it, a court has ruled. Ruling that the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi failed to thoroughly confirm the identity of the person who withdrew the cash, the Yokohama District Court ordered the bank to return about $145,000 from one of the two accounts that was plundered. Advertisement The unidentified victim's bankbook, and other identification was stolen from his home in February 2002, Mainichi Daily News reported Friday. The person who stole the items went to the bank and withdrew the money soon afterwards. "If bank officials had checked the identity of the person with an identification number, there is a high possibility they would have found out that it was not the real person," the court said.
