Two of 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 were re-arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of being involved in another special fraud case.
We are also investigating the connection with a series of wide-area robberies, such as rushing to analyze the mobile phones that are believed to have been used by the four.
Among the four executives of the group who were repatriated from the Philippines to Japan in February and arrested on suspicion of being involved in a special fraud case in 2019, Masato Imamura (38) was re-arrested. They are two suspects, Seiya Fujita (38).
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, in April 2019, Imamura called a woman in her 80s in Saitama Prefecture under the guise of a Financial Services Agency employee, stole three cash cards, and withdrew approximately 2.3 million yen. Theft is suspected.
In November of the same year, Fujita is suspected of stealing five cash cards from a woman in her 60s in Tokyo and withdrawing approximately 3.5 million yen.
Police have not released the identity of the two men.
The Metropolitan Police Department plans to re-arrest Yuki Watanabe (38) and Tomonobu Kojima (45) on March 1 on suspicion of being involved in another special fraud. The damage caused by the incident is estimated to be more than 6 billion yen.
The four are also suspected of giving instructions in a series of wide-area robberies, and in the investigation so far, cash was transferred to Imamura's account from a suspect arrested in a robbery that occurred in Kyoto City. I know that
The Metropolitan Police Department suspected that the commander was trying to collect the money obtained in the incident, and hastened to analyze the mobile phones that were believed to have been used by the four men. increase.