Wanted for arrest warrant for former representative of “Toke Match” management company, may leave Japan

Tokematch, a service where luxury watches are kept by owners and rented to people who want to use them, suddenly ended in January this year, and the Metropolitan Police Department decided to discontinue the service due to a problem in which many watches were not returned to their owners. It has been learned that an arrest warrant has been obtained for the 42-year-old former representative of the company he operated, and he is now wanted.

The former representative appears to have sold some of the watches he kept and is currently overseas.

``Toke Match'' is a service that allows luxury watches such as Rolex watches to be entrusted to the owner and rented to those who wish to use them, and the person who entrusts the watch also receives a monthly deposit fee based on the rank of the watch.

At the end of January this year, the operating company "Neo Reverse" in Osaka suddenly announced on its website that it would be disbanded and its services would be terminated, and users complained one after another that their watches had not been returned. I was there.

Police in 13 prefectures across the country, including Tokyo and Osaka, had received damage reports from more than 40 people who had entrusted their watches, and had launched an investigation.Of these, the Metropolitan Police Department was investigating a case involving the former representative of Neo-Reverse, Takayoshi Fukuhara, also known as Kominato. According to an interview with the Metropolitan Police Department, an arrest warrant has been obtained for the suspect (42), who is wanted on suspicion of embezzlement in the course of business.

The Metropolitan Police Department has so far received damage reports from 27 people, including approximately 70 luxury watches, worth a total of 100 million yen.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, former CEO Fukuhara is suspected of selling a luxury Rolex watch entrusted to him by a customer for 650,000 yen to a second-hand goods dealer in Osaka in January, and has since left the country. The Metropolitan Police Department plans to make international arrangements through the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO).