Japan’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday ordered a well-liked on-line character and former lawmaker, presently residing abroad and referred to as GaaSyy, to return his passport after police obtained an arrest warrant for him over superstar defamation menace allegations.
Tokyo police plan to place the 51-year-old, whose actual identify is Yoshikazu Higashitani, on a world wished checklist via the International Criminal Police Organization, or Interpol, in response to investigative sources.
The police have requested the ministry to confiscate his passport after acquiring the warrant on March 16. The journey doc will grow to be void except it’s returned by the top of April 13.
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