Suspected transfer of land ownership with counterfeit documents Arrest of ground master group November 12, 16:56
Three men were arrested for attempting to transfer ownership by submitting forged documents to the Legal Affairs Bureau over land in a high-class residential area in the city center.
The Metropolitan Police Department is also investigating allegations of fraud, seeing it as a "ground master" group that impersonates the owner and sells the land and tricks large amounts of cash.
Three men were arrested, including Katsuhiro Miki (65), whose occupation is unknown in Koto Ward, Tokyo.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, four years ago in 2016, the three were suspected of trying to transfer ownership by submitting forged documents to the Legal Affairs Bureau for a vacant lot of about 160 square meters in front of Jingumae, Shibuya Ward. I will.
The three suspected that they had trusted a woman in her 80s who pretended to be the owner of the land by attending a negotiation with a real estate company in Tokyo.
Legal Affairs Bureau officials noticed the fraud and the procedure was interrupted, but the land had already been sold to a real estate company.
The land at the site is located in a high-class residential area about 200 meters from Omotesando Station on the Tokyo Metro, and the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating allegations of fraud as a group of "ground masters" who impersonate the owner and sell the land and cheat a large amount of cash. doing.
The Metropolitan Police Department has not disclosed the approval or disapproval of the three.