5 people arrested on suspicion of FX trading fraud Did you collect 3.6 billion yen from more than 600 people? November 10, 20:29
Five men and women were arrested for deceiving about 7.8 million yen from a woman in Nagano prefecture, proposing an investment story such as "There is a way to never lose in Forex trading".
The police are proceeding with the elucidation of the actual situation, assuming that they have collected about 3.6 billion yen from more than 600 people nationwide and used most of it for company expenses.
Both are denying the charges.
Five men and women were arrested, including a self-proclaimed individual investor in Chikuma City, Nagano Prefecture, Satoshi Sekizawa (43).
According to the police, from June to September, the five people approached a woman in her 50s in Nagano prefecture about a scam such as "There is a way to never lose in Forex trading", and about 6 times in total. There is a suspicion of fraud for defrauding 7.8 million yen.
The five are managers and employees of an asset management company in Nagano City, and all of them have denied the charges, saying, "I have no intention of cheating."
From 2010 to the end, the police collected about 3.6 billion yen from more than 600 people in 26 prefectures such as Nagano and Gunma in the same way, and most of them were not used for employee salaries and company We are proceeding with the elucidation of the actual situation, assuming that it was used for expenses.