AICHI (TR) – A court docket right here final week overturned a earlier ruling in opposition to a former bar host, discovering him not culpable to pay a high quality for receiving funds defrauded by a feminine buyer.
In the ruling handed down on March 12, the Nagoya District Court mentioned {that a} penalty shouldn’t be owed by Yuji Tanaka, 27, regardless of his understanding that cash used to pay tabs at a number membership in Tokyo was defrauded by Mai Watanabe.
According to the indictment, Tanaka accepted 38.5 million yen in money for foods and drinks on the membership from 2021 to 2022 whereas understanding that the cash was defrauded from males by Watanabe, whose deal with on-line was “Itadaki Joshi Riri-chan” (Sugar Baby Riri).
Last 12 months, the identical court docket handed Watanabe a sentence of eight years and 6 months in jail. She was additionally fined 8 million yen.
The ruling handed down on March 12 was made for an enchantment. In November 2024, the identical court docket imposed a suspended sentence of three years in jail and a high quality of 10.79 million yen upon Tanaka.
In handing down the ruling, the court docket mentioned that Watanabe had already paid compensation to the sufferer in her case, making Tanaka not required to pay.