How seriously do people take their retirement funds? Just ask officials in Japan, who are on the hunt for a killer targeting those responsible for botched pensions.

Pension officials have infuriated the Japanese public by losing millions of government records, which could cost millions their full pension benefits upon retirement. Even though two prime ministers have already resigned due to the loss of the records, another person is taking the matter into his or her own hands.

When the former head of the Health and Welfare Ministry’s pension division and his wife were found stabbed to death in their home, police chalked it up as a regular homicide.

But days later, the wife of a former pension bureaucrat was stabbed in the chest by a man claiming he worked for a parcel delivery service. Upon opening her front door, it was clear the assailant was on the hunt for her husband — so much so that the wife called from the ambulance to warn her husband.

Authorities said the attacks share three elements:

1. the victims or intended victims were former pension officials
2. a knife was used both attacks, and
3. the attacks occurred only six blocks away from each other.

Until the suspect is apprehended, police have announced a nationwide alert for attacks against current and former officials involved in welfare and pension issues.

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Tags: Homicide, Pension, Retirement, Welfare