18:09 on February 13 whether 8 Japanese detained in the Philippines involved in special fraud
Eight Japanese men were detained by local law enforcement officials in the northern Philippines on suspicion of illegal employment. Phones and manuals describing fraud schemes have also been seized, and investigators are investigating eight suspected suspects of special fraud.
A total of eight Japanese men aged between 21 and 31 were detained.
According to local law enforcement officials, a search for a hotel in a resort area in the northern Laguna Province of the Philippines on the afternoon of November 11 revealed that eight people were working without a working visa and were suspected to have been working illegally. That is, I was restrained.
At the same time, many telephones, personal computers, and manuals describing fraud tricks were seized from the hotel room.
Investigators believe that eight people have been involved in a special fraud that calls and tricks elderly Japanese people for at least three years, with damages in excess of millions of yen.
The men have been relocated to a detention facility near the capital, Manila, and the Philippine Immigration Bureau has decided to proceed with a deportation.
In the Philippines, 36 Japanese groups calling on Japan for wire fraud in November last year were detained, and law enforcement authorities are looking into their association with the eight detained.