A Japanese man who’s suspected to have instructed a current collection of robberies throughout Japan had his girlfriend repeatedly carry defrauded cash 4 years in the past from Japan to the Philippines, the place he’s based mostly.
Japanese police imagine that Watanabe Yuki is a member of a gaggle linked to telephone scams in Japan and had given directions from the Philippines within the collection of violent theft instances in Japan.
Tokyo police have already obtained an arrest warrant for Watanabe, who’s now being held at an immigration facility in larger Manila, for fraud instances in Japan.
His girlfriend, aged 32, was discovered to have repeatedly traveled to Manila in 2019 to ship what are believed to be bundles of money swindled from victims in Japan to Watanabe.
Police and different sources say the lady was arrested in November 2019 for stealing money playing cards from an aged sufferer by making telephone calls pretending to be a police officer.
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