OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested the president of a Tokyo-based firm that maintains lists of names for allegedly promoting private data to a fraud ring, stories the Asahi Shimbun (Aug. 12).
Last November, Katsumi Yamazaki, the 75-year-old president of Business Planning, allegedly offered roughly 14,800 names to the ring realizing that the information could possibly be used for prison functions.
Police didn’t reveal whether or not Yamazaki admits to aiding and abetting laptop fraud.
“Concerned about their health”
The ring makes a speciality of tokushu sagi (“special fraud”), which is carried out on the phone by a caller impersonating an authority determine or a sufferer’s relative.
The ring is suspected of utilizing the listing offered by the suspect to defraud a girl in her 60s in Hiroshima Prefecture out of roughly 2.5 million yen underneath the guise of a nursing care insurance coverage refund.
Yamazaki offered the listing to the ring after receiving a request. A member of the ring stated, “We want a list of people in their 60s to 80s who are concerned about their health.” Including the Hiroshima case, a complete of eight circumstances of fraud have been confirmed, with the quantity misplaced totaling roughly 8 million yen.
Funds deposited
Business Planning emerged as a part of investigations into tax refund fraud circumstances in Hiroshima. With a complete of three million yen was deposited into the corporate’s account from the ring between October final 12 months and April this 12 months, Osaka police are investigating whether or not different lists have been additionally offered by the suspect.
In May, the Personal Information Protection Commission issued an emergency order to the corporate, calling for it to cease the inappropriate sale of private data.
Police are additionally investigating the likelihood that he offered lists to different fraud rings.