A 37-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of embezzling company funds. “I wasn’t being paid enough for the work I did.” The company filed a lawsuit alleging that “approximately 15 million yen was embezzled.”

A former employee of an online auction company has been arrested for embezzling money.

The suspect, Yuki Ogawa (37), is accused of transferring about 3.8 million yen (around $26,000) from the company’s account to his own.

Ogawa was in charge of running the auction site and also handled accounting. He admitted to the crime, saying he wasn’t being paid enough for the amount of work he did.

The parent company started an investigation after business payments were delayed and discovered the fraud.

The company believes Ogawa stole around 15 million yen (about $100,000) in total. Police are now looking into other possible crimes.