TOKYO, Feb 04 (News On Japan) –
Thirteen women and men who had been detained by native authorities at a particular fraud base in Cambodia and transferred to Japan final month have been re-arrested on suspicion of tried fraud, based on the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
The suspects, aged between 20 and 63, had been initially taken into custody in November final yr at a fraud operation web site in Cambodia and had been introduced again to Japan in January, earlier than being re-arrested by the Metropolitan Police’s Special Investigation Division on allegations of tried fraud.
Police mentioned the group is suspected of creating fraudulent telephone calls from Cambodia final yr to a person in his 50s in Osaka, falsely claiming {that a} bankbook in his identify had been discovered on the dwelling of the ringleader of a fraud case and that an arrest warrant had been issued, in an try to swindle him out of 1.5 million yen in money.
Investigators mentioned every member of the group had been promised a month-to-month reward of a minimum of 4,000 {dollars}, and the whole harm attributable to the group’s particular fraud actions is believed to quantity to round 72 million yen.
Source: TBS