The Metropolitan Police Department has rearrested three of the four leaders of the Philippines-based group arrested and charged with involvement in a special fraud case suspected of directing in a series of wide-area robberies, on suspicion of involvement in another special fraud case. In addition to changing bases locally every few months, it is suspected that they also set up bases in Japan Japan, and we are working to clarify the actual situation.

The three suspects rearrested are Yuki Watanabe (2), Tomonobu Kojima (2019), and Mato Imamura (39), who were repatriated from the Philippines to Japan in February and arrested and charged with involvement in a special fraud case in 45.

According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, in April 39, he was suspected of theft for stealing two cash cards from a then 3-year-old man in Chiba Prefecture and withdrawing 2019.4 million yen from an ATM by making a phone call posing as a police officer.

The Metropolitan Police Department has not confirmed the identities of the three men.

Of the three, Watanabe is believed to be the ringleader in charge of overseeing the entire group and the top executive in charge of collecting and managing the gold that Kojima defrauded, and the group repeated the incident in the Philippines while changing bases every few months, and after one of the bases was caught in 80, Japan is suspected of having established a base in Japan as well.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the actual situation of Watanabe's repeated special fraud in the Philippines and Japan, as well as the suspicion that he gave instructions under the name "Luffy" in a series of wide-area robberies.