The Metropolitan Police Department arrested two men on the 9th who were deported to Japan from the Philippines on suspicion of giving instructions in a series of wide-area robberies on the plane being transported on suspicion of theft in connection with a special fraud case. Did.
The repatriation of all four people, including the two who were transferred to Japan on the 7th, has been completed, and the Metropolitan Police Department plans to clarify the actual situation of the special fraud group and investigate the connection with the robbery.
Two people, Yuki Watanabe (38) and Tomonobu Kojima (45), who were deported to Japan from immigration facilities in the Philippines, were arrested.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, in November 2019, the two men pretended to be employees of the Financial Services Agency, called a man in Tokyo, and stole two cash cards, saying, "The account balance has been illegally checked." Theft is suspected.
The two were transferred to Japan on an airplane that left the Philippines late at night on the 8th, and were arrested on the plane at around 2:20 am on the 9th.
Seiya Fujita (38) and Masato Imamura (38) were transferred to Japan on the 7th, and this will complete the repatriation of all four.
The Metropolitan Police Department believes that the four people were involved in a special fraud case in which the damage amounted to more than 6 billion yen as a group executive, etc. Since there is a suspicion that the