OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested two males, together with a judicial scrivener, for impersonating a 3rd man who owns actual property in Osaka City and submitting a false property registration software, experiences TBS News (Jan. 15).
In January of final yr, Ryohei Matsumoto, a 34-year-old judicial scrivener, and his confederate are suspected of impersonating the third man, aged in his 80s, who owns a plot of actual property in Kita Ward.
The pair then submitted a false property registration software stating that possession had been transferred to an organization in Mie Prefecture after a sale.
Matsumoto and his confederate used a cast identification to submit the false property registration purposes. They additionally made unauthorized adjustments to registered seals.
Jimenshi
According to the land proprietor’s precise lawyer, it’s probably that Matsumoto and his confederate had been trying to defraud individuals by impersonating the proprietor, a typical tactic for a jimenshi (land fraudster) within the shopping for and promoting of actual property, experiences the Yomiuri Shimbun (Jan. 14).
The confederate is the 33-year-old former consultant director of actual property firm Netra Check, which was based mostly in Kuwana City, Mie Prefecture earlier than its dissolution.
When Matsumoto and his confederate filed the false software with the Legal Affairs Bureau stating that the male proprietor had bought the home and land in Kita Ward to Netra Check, they claimed that possession had been transferred, ensuing within the fraudulent registration.
According to land registry data and different sources, the land measures roughly 800 sq. meters. Two outdated, two-story wood homes stand facet by facet on the identical lot. At the time, the male proprietor lived there.
According to the person’s lawyer and others, Matsumoto was posing as his consultant. The man grew to become conscious of the scenario after being contacted by the Osaka Prefectural Police, who knowledgeable him that the title may need been modified. Several actual property brokers concerned about buying the land had contacted the person, asking if the land was actually on the market.
Lawsuit
In March of final yr, the person filed a lawsuit towards the previous consultant director of Netra Check, in search of the cancellation of the possession switch registration. The man had by no means met the previous consultant director.
The court docket ordered the registration canceled in May. The man bought the land to a different actual property firm in September.
Matsumoto can be believed to have been concerned within the possession switch registration of two different properties in Osaka City. In each instances, their registrations had been ordered to be transferred again to their unique states final yr.