The first trial of a 66-year-old defendant accused of defrauding about 3.2 billion yen in cash from a company officer living in Kanagawa prefecture under the guise of having a fictitious fund called "M fund" was held at the Yokohama District Court. Opened, the defendant pleaded not guilty to "fighting entirely."

Kaoru Muto, a 66-year-old unemployed person in Minato-ku, Tokyo, lied that he would "provide 280 billion yen" by pretending to have a fictitious fund called "M fund" that was requisitioned by GHQ from Japanese gold and silver. A man in his 70s, a corporate officer living in Kanagawa Prefecture, has been accused of fraud for defrauding about 3.2 billion yen in cash as a procedure cost.



At the first trial held at the Yokohama District Court on the 25th, Defendant Muto was charged with saying, "I have never met the victim and I can't cheat the money. I will fight in full." And the lawyer pleaded not guilty.



In the opening statement that followed, the prosecution said to the victim, "The defendant called himself Mac Aoi and met the victim around 2013. The application method is special and expensive," or "there is a transportation cost." I made them believe that the story was going on concretely. "



After that, he mentioned that the victim had transferred 2.8 billion yen at a time and said, "I thought that the money I had paid up to that point would be wasted, but after that I was distrustful of being asked for money and consulted with the police. ", And revealed how the damage was discovered.