住宅ローン返済で家計圧迫され…勤務中に競艇や競馬の券購入　国税職員を停職処分（産経新聞） - Yahoo!ニュース

This page reports that the Osaka National Tax Bureau imposed a one-month suspension on a senior tax investigator in his 30s working at a tax office in Hyogo Prefecture. The employee started gambling at boat and horse racing after mortgage payments strained his finances following home purchase in January 2022. From July 2022, he purchased betting tickets during work hours, totaling 2,251 purchases by April 2027, spending ¥8,500 on horse racing and ¥7.1 million on boat racing. He failed to report the winnings and fraudulently borrowed ¥1.4 million from a mutual aid association using fake repair estimates. The misconduct was discovered during an inspection investigation in May, and the employee subsequently resigned voluntarily.