The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will issue passports to the former representatives of the company for which the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department obtained arrest warrants for selling watches that had been entrusted to the company operating the luxury watch sharing service "Tokematch" without permission by the 12th of next month. I issued an order to return the.
Regarding Toke Match, the operating company suddenly announced its dissolution at the end of January this year, and many watches have not been returned.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed that the company's former representative, Takayoshi Fukuhara (42), and former employee Daisuke Nagata (38), who left the country for Dubai on the day the company's dissolution was announced, sold a Rolex that had been entrusted to them by a customer. We have obtained an arrest warrant for him on suspicion of embezzlement in the course of business, and have requested the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) through the National Police Agency to place him on international arrest warrant.
In response to a request from the National Police Agency, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ordered these two people to return their passports by the 12th of next month, based on the Passport Act.
If the passport is not returned by the deadline, it will become invalid and you will not be able to extend your visa or leave the country to another country.
On the other hand, according to sources, there is information that former CEO Fukuhara has obtained a residence permit, so it is unclear at this point whether he will be asked to leave immediately after it expires.
If the suspect is placed on an international warrant, the Metropolitan Police Department is expected to request cooperation from local investigative authorities to confirm his whereabouts.