Four people, including executives from a company in Kobe City, have been arrested for allegedly failing to provide a document stating the cancellation of the contract when they offered a contract to install blue tarpaulins on houses in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, which were affected by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake. it was done.
Those arrested were Daisuke Matsunaga (45), a company executive and a self-proclaimed part-time worker, Taiki Yokoi (43), and Yoshiji Furuhata (35), a self-employed self-employed man, all living in Kobe. The four suspects are Masago Usuki (26), who works in the remodeling business.
According to the police, on January 3, the four people visited a disaster-affected house in Nanao City and offered a man in his 60s and other people a contract to install blue sheets on the damaged roof, and the work cost 100,000 yen. However, the company is suspected of violating the Specified Commercial Transactions Law because it did not provide a document stating the cancellation of the contract.
Police were investigating after receiving a complaint from a man's relative who said, ``I was charged an exorbitant amount for simply attaching a blue sheet to the roof with a string.''
Police are not disclosing the identity of the four people as it would hinder the investigation, but they are investigating the possibility that others may have entered into similar contracts.