TOKYO (TR) – Prosecutors have introduced the non-prosecution of two members of a felony syndicated who had been suspected of utilizing a vacant house to hold out fraud, experiences Fuji News Network (Jan. 26).
In July of 2024, Masahiro Yamashita, a 44-year-old chief throughout the Sumiyoshi-kai, and fellow gangster Hironobu Iwakiri, 35, had been suspected of working collectively on the phone to deceive a person in his 60s dwelling in Shizuoka Prefecture out of three million yen in money.
The pair then had him ship the cash to a vacant house in Nerima Ward. Afterward, they scheduled a viewing of the house by a fellow actual property firm proprietor and had somebody acquire the money.
On Monday, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office determined to not indict the 2 gangsters.
The rip-off is known as tokushu sagi, that means specialised fraud. Perpetrators of this crime goal a sufferer over the phone and impersonate an authority determine or relative to defraud cash from them.
Police had been investigating the chance that Yamashita and his affiliate could have been concerned in round 80 circumstances of the sort of fraud utilizing comparable strategies, leading to losses of roughly 1.1 billion yen.