Nineteen Japan people caught in Cambodia and arrested on suspicion of involvement in special fraud have been rearrested on suspicion of involvement in another special fraud. It was also found that many of the members were unable to move freely in the field and were forced to commit fraud under house arrest, and the Metropolitan Police Department plans to clarify the actual situation of the group.
Nineteen people were rearrested, including 38-year-old Taishi Yamada, who has an unspecified address and is unemployed, and 19 Japan 1 others.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, in January, a man in his 70s in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, was suspected of fraud by sending false messages to his mobile phone or making phone calls, saying that there were unpaid charges for a paid site, and defrauding him by transferring 75,19 yen in cash to his account. Many of the suspects remain silent in response to the investigation.
The 1 members are believed to be a special fraud group based in a hotel in Cambodia, but only a few were able to move freely there, and many of its members were suspected of being scammed under house arrest, according to interviews with investigators.
Some members have had their passports and personal mobile phones taken away and testified that they have never been out since entering the country.
In addition, from the statements of the members, it seems that Yamada was one of the leaders and took one of the two rooms of the hotel where he was based, and documents summarizing the members' fraudulent records were also confiscated.
More than 2 cases of damage caused by this group are estimated to amount to about 1 million yen, and the Metropolitan Police Department plans to clarify the actual situation of the group.