Two representatives of this company were arrested by Kanagawa Prefectural Police for registering the establishment of an IT-related company by submitting false documents. The two were said to have asked North Korean IT engineers to handle tasks such as app development for orders from Japanese companies, and police believe that some of the compensation paid by the companies may have flowed to the North Korean side. I'm looking into it in detail because I think there is.
Those arrested were
Hyun-ichi Park (53), a South Korean national who is the president of an IT-related company in Fuchu-cho, Hiroshima Prefecture, and
Yuro Minoge (42), the representative of another IT-related company in Hiroshima Prefecture. .
According to the Kanagawa Prefectural Police, the two are suspected of submitting false documents to the Legal Affairs Bureau three years ago when establishing an IT-related company represented by Minoge.
A year ago, Kanagawa Prefectural Police and Hiroshima Prefectural Police uncovered a case of illegal remittances to North Korean IT engineers, and as a result of the investigation, it was discovered that President Park was suspected of instructing Representative Minoge to set up the company. about it.
According to the investigation so far, the two men sent requests to North Korean IT engineers via email for tasks such as app development for orders from Japanese companies, and sent the fees paid by the companies to the engineers. .
Police believe that some of the compensation may have flowed to North Korea through the IT engineer, and are investigating the details of the incident.
Police have not revealed the identity of the two men.