Police in Tokyo have arrested three folks over a fraud case by which they allegedly chased a truck with a supercar and obtained the motive force’s private info to create a bank card.
Takaaki Saito, 32, and Yuki Nomura, 30, had been arrested on suspicion of shopping for two smartphones value a complete of ¥299,600 on July 10, 2023, with a bank card within the title of the truck driver. Saito and his spouse, Chiharu, 33, allegedly dedicated fraud totaling about ¥99,000 in money by returning garments illegally bought with one other bank card.
Saito stays silent on the fraud and theft fees, knowledgeable sources mentioned, noting that Chiharu has denied the allegations whereas Nomura has admitted them.
In keeping with sources at Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Division, the trio is believed to have created a complete of 34 bank cards within the names of 9 folks utilizing private info they obtained via comparable strategies. From December 2022 to Could 2024, they gained a complete of about ¥40 million underneath the scheme.
The cash is believed to have been used to repay their supercar loans and pay lease for the high-rise condominium the place the Saitos reside.
In keeping with the sources, the couple from Tokyo’s Toyosu Ward and Nomura from Yokohama chased vans primarily with a supercar and stopped them, claiming that their precious car had been hit by a stone.
In Tokyo and 10 different prefectures, they referred to as police or introduced their very own licenses to take footage of the truck drivers’ licenses.
They used the non-public info of the truck drivers to create a number of financial institution accounts and bank cards and rented a number of rooms underneath the names of the drivers to obtain the playing cards by mail.
