Police from Saitama and other prefectures have arrested four Japanese men transferred from the Philippines to Japan for allegedly being involved in a fraud case.
The men, arrested Monday, are believed to be members of a group based in an apartment in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh that engaged in telephone or other scams classified as special fraud in Japan. Jun Kiyohara, 30, one of the arrested men, was likely in charge of the base of operations.
The four had been taken into custody by Philippine authorities.
In full: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/19/japan/crime-legal/japan-fraud-ring-arrests/
