A 36-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of disrupting his business, for example, by sending a wallet to a school corporation in Tokyo that he had "attached the new coronavirus".
No virus was detected in the wallet, and the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating it as a malicious mischief.
The person arrested was Naoto Sato (36), an unemployed person in Sukagawa City, Fukushima Prefecture.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, on the 8th of last month, a parcel containing a wallet saying "new coronavirus was attached" was sent to the office of a school corporation in Sumida Ward, Tokyo, which operates a vocational school, etc. There is a suspicion of power disruption of business as it was taken.
The enclosed letter said, "Hundreds of students and the entire group will be infected and how many will die. It's a sight to see Takami."
When the Metropolitan Police Department investigated, no virus was detected in the wallet.
Sato used a pseudonym, but he admitted that he was "no doubt" in the investigation because he was identified from the images of the security cameras installed at the post office in Fukushima prefecture. ..
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the details of the mischief as a malicious mischief.