In a case in which the president of a consulting firm in Tokyo was arrested for defrauding money by pretending to invest in an overseas fund, the company set up a special department to encourage borrowing from financial institutions in order to prepare funds for customers. I found out by interviewing the Metropolitan Police Department.
The average customer borrowed 7 million yen per person, and the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that the aim was to collect a lot of money from young people in their 20s and 30s in a short period of time.
Kota Morino, 38, the president of consulting firm FRich Quest, and eight others defrauded four men in their 20s from Saitama Prefecture out of a total of 56.8 million yen under the pretext of investing in an overseas fund. He was arrested on suspicion and sent to the public prosecutor's office on the 10th.
Subsequent investigation revealed that the company had set up a special department to encourage borrowing from financial institutions in order to prepare funds for customers.
This department, called the "Customer Success Department," encourages customers to take out loans from consumer finance and banks, and at that time, advises them to apply under the pretext of living expenses and ceremonial expenses, and provides specific instructions on how to do so. It means that I was doing it.
According to an examination of the customer ledger seized by the Metropolitan Police Department, each customer borrowed an average of 7 million yen.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that the aim was to collect a lot of money in a short period of time from young people in their 20s and 30s, who account for the majority of customers.
The man who was urged to borrow
A man in his thirties living in the Kanto region who deposited more than 10 million yen in "FRich Quest" was urged by the company to borrow funds from a financial institution, and borrowed from about eight companies in total.
At that time, it is said that the name of the loan was advised to be "marriage funds".
The man said, ``I think I was immature, but I borrowed money, so I want it back anyway. was