TOKYO (TR) ā Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a bunch of six individuals related to a bar in Shibuya Ward who’re suspected of misusing relationship apps for individuals with disabilities for fraud-related functions, experiences NHK (June 19).
Earlier this yr, Shunta Suzuki, 22, Hiroto Kasai, 24, and Hirori Kumagai, 23, are suspected of luring two males of their 20s that they’d met on a relationship app to their institution in Dogenzaka, charging them excessive charges and making them pay greater than 6.2 million yen below false pretenses.
Upon their arrests on suspicion of fraud and violating a Tokyo Metropolitan Government anti-rip-off ordinance, all however one of many six suspects admitted to the allegations, police stated. āI will consult with his lawyer,ā the sixth suspect stated.
Held him captive in a sauna
In one case in March, a disabled man met an individual claiming to be āRisaā on an app for individuals with disabilities. After visiting the bar, Suzuki and his accomplices took the person to an ATM to make him pay 220,000 yen for the meal and drinks.
They additionally claimed that āanother customerās reservation was canceled.ā As a consequence, they confiscated his cell phone and held him captive in a sauna till the subsequent morning. They additionally pressured him to borrow cash from a client finance firm. They later defrauded him of two million yen in money and compelled him to purchase six necklaces along with his bank card (value roughly 2.42 million yen) to cowl reservation cancellation charges.
In the second case the next month, additionally they lured one other man in his 20s to the bar and made him pay 90,000 yen for meals utilizing the identical methodology. They additionally defrauded him out of 1.5 million yen.
Target males who āhave little experience dating womenā
Police stated that the group had a guide that gave the instruction to focus on males who āhave little experience dating women and wonāt get angry.ā
Data for 57 individuals, together with driverās licenses, was discovered on the suspectsā smartphones. Police are persevering with the investigation, believing that a number of accounts on apps had been created utilizing different individualsās knowledge.
Suzuki had already been arrested in a earlier case of misusing relationship apps for individuals with disabilities in a rip-off scheme.