TOKYO (TR) – A former Fuchu Metropolis councilman in custody over the alleged drugging and sexual assault of a person has been arrested for 2 different instances, police stated.
Primarily based on proof seized within the investigation into Ryuichi Akita, 27, police consider that he carried out comparable crimes with greater than 10 males, based on the Asahi Shimbun (Nov. 28).
Within the newest allegations, Akita is alleged to have sexually assaulted two drunk males, each aged of their 20s, at his then residence in Suginami Ward on December 31, 2021 and once more on the next January 8.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of quasi-forced intercourse and quasi-forced indecent assault, he stated, “I can not say something additional.”
On November 6, police first arrested Akita for allegedly giving sleeping drugs to a person in his 20s, whom he met at a neighborhood occasion, after which committing indecent acts in opposition to him.
In the course of the course of the latter investigation, greater than 100 obscene movies have been discovered on Akita’s seized smartphone. It was by these movies that the newest victims have been recognized.
Police are persevering with the investigation, believing that about one dozen males have been victims.
In accordance with the Fuchu Metropolis Council Secretariat, Akita resigned from his publish on November 11.
