Five defendants of Chinese nationality were arrested and charged with fraudulently purchasing about 1 million yen worth of Shinkansen tickets using the information of another person's credit card. Since it was sold to a cash ticket shop, the police are trying to clarify the actual situation of the group.
Five people were arrested and charged, including the defendant Zhang Zeng * Yik (28), a Chinese national with no fixed residence and no job.
According to the police, the five men are accused of theft and other crimes for purchasing and issuing approximately 14,000 Shinkansen tickets worth a total of about 140 million yen on JR West Japan and JR Kyushu reservation sites between February and April using the information of another person's credit card.
The credit card information of 335 people is used, and the police believe that the card information was stolen by a method called 'phishing'.
In addition to counterfeit credit cards, counterfeiting equipment and bullet train tickets were confiscated from related parties.
Four of the five people received tickets using a credit card at the ticket vending machine at the station, and the other one sold them to a ticket shop, so in response to the police investigation, "I was recruiting on SNS and the part-time job fee was high, so I did it."
Police are working to find out what the group is doing.
* Iku is a character with three katakana "no" in a row on the right side of "或".