TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 40-year-old man over the alleged swindling of practically 5 million yen from a lady throughout a visit to Thailand final yr, experiences TBS News (Jan. 16).
According to police, Shigeki Chiba defrauded the lady, aged in her 30s, by telling a false story involving marijuana planted in her bag.
In August, Chiba allegedly positioned what seemed to be marijuana in her bag at their resort in Thailand and demanded hush cash to keep away from each of them being arrested, thereby swindling her out of 4.98 million yen.
When questioned, Chiba, who lives in Hachioji City, denied the allegations. “The facts are not true,” he mentioned. He was handed over to the prosecutors on Friday.
“Perfect boyfriend”
Chiba met the lady on a matchmaking app. The suspect’s profile acknowledged, “I’ve traveled to about 20 countries overseas!”
The lady tells Nippon News Network (Jan. 17), “If he wasn’t a scammer, he’d be the perfect boyfriend.”
Prior to their departure, he reportedly informed her, “I’ll take you to Thailand during summer vacation, so just prepare your passport.”
Photos printed by the community present the couple doing sightseeing, together with with Chiba posing with a tiger. However, issues modified on the final day.
She says it went like this: “While we on the resort, the telephone rang. I communicate conversational English, so I had him translate for me. It was a suspicious name with the caller saying, ‘You have marijuana in your bag, please check.’”
When the woman checked her bag, she found what appeared to be marijuana inside, which she had no recollection of.
She says, “I was so surprised I asked, ‘When did this happen?’ The reality remained that I had marijuana and I all of a sudden turned a prison.”
“Marijuana possession”
Police imagine that Chiba put the marijuana in her bag.
He then lied to her, “I need 10 million yen to avoid arrest for marijuana possession.” He then requested her to pay half of that, roughly 5 million yen.
She goes on, “He said, ‘I’m also responsible, so I’ll pay half.’ For a moment, I thought, ‘Couldn’t he have put the marijuana in there?’ But then he said, ‘I’ll figure it out, so transfer it to my account.’”
After that, Chiba’s perspective modified utterly, with him regularly changing into unreachable. The lady, feeling distrustful, contacted Tokyo police.
“I had mixed emotions; I trusted him so much that I thought, ‘There’s no one I could trust more than this.’ Now he’s betrayed me. I feel frustrated. I’m not getting my money back, so I want it back,” she says.
Tokyo police have confirmed different instances of ladies being defrauded of money via the same technique. They are investigating whether or not these instances are linked to Chiba.