Four suspects deported from the Philippines to be re-arrested for another special fraud

The Metropolitan Police Department plans to re-arrest the four executives of the group who were repatriated from the Philippines to Japan and arrested on suspicion of being involved in a special fraud case, on suspicion of being involved in another special fraud.

According to an interview with investigative sources, it was revealed that cash had been transferred to the account of one of them from a suspect who was arrested in a robbery that occurred in Kyoto. There is a suspicion that he was trying to collect money, and we are investigating the connection with a series of wide-area robberies.

In February, four people including Yuki Watanabe (38), who was repatriated from the Philippines to Japan, were arrested on suspicion of being involved in a special fraud case in 2019, and the damage caused by this series of special fraud cases was 6 billion yen. expected to be higher than that.

The Metropolitan Police Department decided to re-arrest two of them, Masato Imamura (38) and Seiya Fujita (38), on the 28th on suspicion of stealing a cash card from an elderly person in Saitama Prefecture. I'm here.

In addition, we plan to re-arrest two suspects, including Watanabe, who is believed to be the ringleader of the group, on March 1 on suspicion of being involved in another special fraud case.

The four are suspected of having given instructions in a series of wide-area robberies. A new interview with investigative officials revealed that a total of about 2.7 million yen was transferred from the suspect who was arrested for being involved.

The time when the money was transferred was from April to June last year when Imamura was detained in an immigration facility in the Philippines. It means that he is stating that he was instructed to do so.

The Metropolitan Police Department suspected that the commander was trying to collect the money obtained in the incident, and rushed to analyze the mobile phones that were believed to have been used by the four people, investigating the connection with the series of wide-area robberies. I'm here.