In a case in which former employees of a credit card payment agency were arrested for helping a customer's restaurant enter into a franchise contract under a false name, the Metropolitan Police Department revealed that the former employees were involved in a case in which the restaurant's sales were transferred to another person's name. He was re-arrested for allegedly hiding the money in his bank account.
The company is about to become a corporation, and we are looking into the details of the incident, with the intention of submitting documents to the public prosecutor on the same charges.
The former employee denies the charges.
The suspects who were re-arrested were Yusuke Kato (43), former head of the sales division of Zentoshin, a credit card payment agency, and Akimichi Takemoto (63), a company executive from Shinagawa Ward.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, between October and last year, when a restaurant in Shimbashi, Tokyo, mediated the procedure to enter into an affiliate store contract with a credit card company under a false name, approximately 29 million yen in proceeds transferred from the company to the restaurant was transferred to another person's name. He is suspected of violating the Organized Crime Punishment Act by hiding the money in his bank account.
The two reportedly received over 1 million yen each as compensation from the hidden money.
It is believed that he used the same method to fraudulently broker contracts between approximately 30 restaurants in Tokyo and credit card companies, and received compensation.
The former employee denies the charges, but the company executives admit them.
The Metropolitan Police Department searched Zentoshin's headquarters in Osaka on the 6th to investigate how contracts and sales payments were made.
The company is about to become a corporation, and we are looking into the details of the incident, with the intention of submitting documents to the public prosecutor on the same charges.