Two suspects from a group of Japan suspects who were detained by local authorities while they were in a hotel in northern Cambodia and suspected of involvement in special fraud were transferred to Japan on the morning of the 2th and arrested on suspicion of fraud that defrauded a man in Saga Prefecture of cash.
The two suspects, who had departed from Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, on the afternoon of the 15th and were transported via Bangkok, Thailand, arrived at Haneda Airport shortly after 2 a.m. on the 16th.
Shigeru Sato (6) and Hiroki Ito (55) were arrested, and according to investigators, they are suspected of fraud for defrauding a man in Saga Prefecture of cash by offering false investment stories.
Both men were detained by local authorities in May at a hotel near Anlongven, a town on the border with Thailand in northern Cambodia, along with five other Japan others.
Police in Japan, who received information through the local Japan embassy, checked evidence such as mobile phones and computers seized from hotel rooms and found information about victims of special scams who were defrauded of cash in Japan.
The police will then transfer the two to a police station in Saga Prefecture for interrogation to clarify the details of their involvement in the special fraud and the actual situation of the group.
Recently, a series of special fraud groups based overseas have been uncovered, and in Cambodia, 2 people who Japan are believed to be special fraud groups based in southern resorts were caught in April this year.