Six years ago, Yuki Watanabe, who was deported to Japan from the Philippines in connection with a series of wide-area robberies across the country, was arrested internationally on suspicion of being involved in a special fraud case that occurred in Yamagata prefecture six years ago. I know it was arranged.
According to investigative sources, in 2017, in Tsuruoka and Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, members of a fraudulent group committed fraud and theft, alleging that they pretended to be police officers with forged police notebooks and defrauded elderly people of cash cards. arrested on suspicion.
The Yamagata Prefectural Police Headquarters issued an arrest warrant on suspicion of fraud on the suspicion that Yuki Watanabe (38), who was deported from the Philippines on the 9th of this month and arrested for another special fraud case, was involved in this fraud case in Yamagata. It was newly found in interviews with investigative officials that they had taken and made international arrangements.
At that time, the police seized 37 million yen in cash, which was believed to have been deceived in Yamagata Prefecture from a person related to Watanabe, who was about to board a plane to Bangkok, Thailand, at Chubu Airport in Aichi Prefecture.
Police are investigating the possibility that Watanabe, who is believed to have been in Thailand at the time, tried to carry the cash.