Three people, including a caregiver in Tokyo's Adachi Ward, were arrested for attempting to defraud approximately 16 million yen in insurance money in the name of repair costs by feigning a collision between a car and a bicycle.
Three people were arrested, including Koji Takahashi (47), a caregiver, and Mikiharu Yamauchi (33), a company employee, all of whom live in Adachi Ward.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, in 2018, a man was suspected of attempted fraud in an attempt to defraud approximately 16 million yen in insurance money in the name of repair costs by feigning an accident in which a car rear-ended two bicycles on a road in Adachi Ward. I am.
At the time, Takahashi was riding a bicycle, and his acquaintance, Yamauchi, was driving the car.
In addition, the Metropolitan Police Department believes that he was trying to inflate the bill because he claimed that the expensive competition electric gun he owned was damaged as a result of the accident.
The insurance company, which became suspicious that there were multiple claims for accidents between the same parties, consulted the Metropolitan Police Department and discovered the incident.In response to the investigation, Takahashi denied the charges, saying, ``It was a real accident.'' However, the other two have acknowledged it.
Takahashi has already been indicted for defrauding approximately 18 million yen in insurance money using the same method, and the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the possibility that he may have been involved in approximately 30 insurance frauds since 2004.