The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department analyzed the mobile phones used by four people who were suspected of giving orders in a series of wide-area robberies and were deported to Japan from immigration facilities in the Philippines. Interviews with investigators revealed that the situation was true.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating whether there is a suspicion that the data has been erased in some way.
Four people, including Yuki Watanabe (38) and Masato Imamura (38), who were deported from immigration facilities in the Philippines, were arrested on suspicion of being involved in a special fraud case in 2019. We have received about 15 mobile phones that are believed to have been used by people, and we are proceeding with the analysis.
As a result, interviews with investigative officials revealed that some of the devices had almost no data, just like when they started using new devices.
Although it is possible to restore a certain amount of data even if the terminal is initialized once, there is a suspicion that the data has been erased in some way, and there is a possibility that the seized terminal was a dummy. .
The Metropolitan Police Department will rush to analyze the remaining terminals, proceed with interviews with the executives and other parties concerned, and conduct a full-scale investigation into the connection with the series of wide-area robberies.