Former managers were arrested for defrauding the company of approximately 2.5 billion yen by inflating the outsourcing costs related to the maintenance of Rakuten Mobile's mobile phone base stations. I learned from an interview with the Metropolitan Police Department that there was a clear management and payment authority.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the possibility that the former director took advantage of the fact that a company that had newly entered the mobile phone business was rushing to develop base stations, and that he may have led fraudulent activities in partnership with business partners.
Three suspects, including Yuki Sato (46), former logistics management manager of Rakuten Mobile, inflated the cost of developing a mobile phone base station outsourced by Rakuten Mobile to Japan Logistics by about 2.5 billion yen, including about 920 million yen. It is suspected that he fraudulently billed Rakuten Mobile for yen and defrauded him.
Police have not released the identity of the three.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the former managers inflated the transportation and storage fees by pretending to have ordered more vehicles to carry the materials and misrepresenting the area of the warehouse where the materials were stored. .
An interview with the Metropolitan Police Department revealed that the former director had overall control over the operations in which the padding was done, and that he had the authority to make decisions.
It is said that the outsourcing fee paid by the company was about 30 billion yen in the three years until the year before, and it is believed that several billion yen was overstated.
Since the company newly entered the mobile phone business, it has been in a hurry to develop base stations, but the Metropolitan Police Department suspects that the former manager took advantage of the company's situation and led fraudulent activities in partnership with business partners. Checking it up.
Former general manager familiar with logistics operations Joined Rakuten Mobile, which is rushing to develop base stations
According to people involved, former manager Sato moved from another company to Rakuten Group in 2018 and moved to Rakuten Mobile in October.
It was a time when Rakuten Mobile was rapidly developing its own base stations when entering the mobile phone business, with the company's future at stake. was bought.
At the company, as the director of logistics management, he oversaw all operations related to the storage and transportation of materials necessary for the construction of base stations.
However, an in-house investigation revealed fraud, and the company filed a criminal complaint with the Metropolitan Police Department and dismissed the former manager in August last year.
Is it possible to buy an apartment in the city center or a luxury car with the inflated money?
According to the Metropolitan Police Department and other sources, part of the money, which is believed to be the inflated amount, went through a transportation company subcontracted by Nippon Logistics or another company, and was sent to Kyoto Prefecture, where the wife of the former manager was the representative. It means that it was transferred to the account of the company that used it and the account in the name of the former manager.
In addition to owning multiple luxury cars, the former manager also purchased multiple real estate properties, including a tower apartment house in Minato-ku, Tokyo and an apartment in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture.
The Metropolitan Police Department believes that these purchases were made with inflated money.