特殊とくしゅ詐欺さぎ被害ひがい金きんマネロンか 3人にん逮捕たいほ 「ルフィ」Gとの関係かんけいも捜査そうさ

Three suspects, including a 37-year-old, have been arrested for defrauding victims of cash through a special scam involving fictitious charges. The joint investigation headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department and others are investigating the possibility that they were also involved in money laundering, such as converting the fraudulent proceeds into cryptocurrency.

It is suspected that they also received criminal proceeds from the Luffy Group, which committed a series of large-scale robberies, and laundered the money, and they plan to advance the investigation to clarify the facts.

The individuals arrested are Takuya Higuchi 37 from Toyonaka City, Osaka, and Sakae Aida 33 from Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, among three people.

According to investigators, the three are suspected of fraud for allegedly deceiving a man in his 60s in Chiba Prefecture two years ago by falsely claiming that he had unpaid fees for a paid video site and swindling him out of 1.2 million yen.

It is suspected that after converting the money transferred by the man into cryptocurrency, it was routed through overseas exchanges and multiple accounts, and then converted back into cash and transported, thus being involved in money laundering.

Additionally, it has been reported that part of the money illegally obtained by the Luffy Group, which remotely directed executors of illegal jobs from the Philippines to carry out a series of widespread robberies, was transported to a residence in Tokyo where the suspect Higuchi previously lived.

The joint investigation headquarters, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, plans to investigate the actual situation, suspecting that the suspect Higuchi and others received criminal proceeds amounting to hundreds of millions every month from multiple organizations such as the Luffy group, and repeatedly engaged in money laundering involving cryptocurrencies and transfers to overseas accounts that are difficult to investigate.