Former SoftBank employee Eating and drinking and deepening relations with Russian staffer January 26 12:04
In a case where a former employee of a telecom major and SoftBank was arrested for illegally extracting confidential information, he repeatedly contacted a staff of the Russian Trade Representative in Japan who stated that the former employee had passed the information at a restaurant etc. Interviewed the investigators. Former employees have stated that they have received cash, and the Metropolitan Police Department is examining that they have deepened their relationship through eating and drinking.
A former SoftBank employee, Yutaka Araki (48), allegedly violated the Unfair Competition Prevention Law in February of last year when he accessed a company server and illegally extracted confidential information about communication equipment such as telephone base stations. I was arrested for a day.
According to previous investigations, former employees of Araki have stated that they have passed the information to the staff of the 50s of the Russian Trade Representative in Japan, and the Metropolitan Police Department has suspected that former employees who have already returned have been involved. In fact, I have requested that she appear through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Investigations afterwards revealed that former employees had contacted staff of the Russian Trade Representative multiple times at restaurants and other places in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
Former employee Araki stated, "I have received cash from the staff. I wanted pocket money," and the Metropolitan Police Department deepened the relationship through eating and drinking, etc., and elucidated the whole picture as a spy activity seeking the provision of confidential information. It is a policy to proceed.