OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a key determine in a big money-laundering scheme who had fled abroad.
On Monday night time, police apprehended Takamasa Ikeda, 38, upon his arrival on a flight from Singapore at Kansai Worldwide Airport. He’s believed to be the number-three member within the money-laundering ring Liberton Group, stories NHK (Sep. 2).
Between November 2021 and June 2023, Ikeda and others within the group are suspected of creating an organization with no precise enterprise operations and transferring roughly 5.59 million yen from its company account, together with 2.1 million yen in fraudulent funds, to a different account.
Fled to the Philippines
Ikeda is in custody on suspicion of violating the Organized Crime Punishment Act for concealment of felony proceeds. Police had already arrested the group’s prime member, Sotaro Ishikawa, 35, and its number-two member, Kosuke Yamada, on the identical costs.
Final month, police within the Philippines apprehended 37-year-old Hiroyuki Kawasaki, who fled Japan earlier this yr.
In accordance with police, a minimum of 70 billion yen was deposited into over 4,000 company accounts belonging to 500 paper corporations below Liberton’s Group’s administration.
Police are nonetheless searching for the whereabouts of one other key member, Shinya Ito, 37, who can also be believed to have fled to the Philippines.
