マニラ日本人にほんじん2人ふたり殺害さつがい事件じけん 首謀者しゅぼうしゃ特定とくていへ 警視庁けいしちょうが捜査そうさ始はじめる

On the 15th of this month, regarding the incident in which two Japanese nationals were shot and killed on the streets of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, it has been learned through interviews with investigators that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has begun an investigation to identify the mastermind behind the case.

On the 15th of this month, in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, two Japanese men were shot and killed with a handgun immediately after getting out of a taxi.

According to local police and other sources, the victims who were killed have been identified as Hideaki Satori 53 and Akinobu Nakayama 41, both of whom lived in Tokyo.

The local police have detained two suspects, both believed to be Filipino: a man in his 50s suspected of carrying out the shooting, and his older brother in his 60s, who was reportedly acting as a tour guide while riding in the taxi. The police are also continuing their investigation by searching for another suspect who fled the scene.

One of the suspects reportedly stated that they were asked by the Japanese ringleader to carry out the killing for a reward of 9 million pesos, which is approximately 23 million yen.

It is believed that the ringleader, who is Japanese, lives in Japan, and when this ringleader visited the Philippines, the tour guide suspect served as his driver.

It has been learned from interviews with investigators that the Metropolitan Police Department has begun an investigation to identify the Japanese ringleader, suspecting that multiple Japanese individuals may have been involved in this incident.

It is expected that the investigation will proceed by cooperating with the Philippine police from now on.

The investigation of overseas incidents is governed by the extraterritorial offense provision in the Penal Code, which stipulates that if a Japanese person commits or is involved in a serious crime such as murder abroad, the Japanese Penal Code applies.

If this regulation is applied, Japanese police can conduct investigations based on information provided by local investigative authorities.

As a case in which this regulation was applied in the past, in 2019, a man in his 70s living in Kobe City was arrested by the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters on suspicion of murder for instructing a local Filipino in Cebu City, Philippines, to kill his wife.