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Takaaki Saito, 32, and Yuki Nomura, 30, have been arrested on suspicion of shopping for two smartphones price 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 costs, knowledgeable sources mentioned, noting that Chiharu has denied the allegations whereas Nomura has admitted them.
According to sources at Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department, the trio is believed to have created a complete of 34 bank cards within the names of 9 individuals utilizing private info they obtained by way of comparable strategies. From December 2022 to May 2024, they gained a complete of about ¥40 million below the scheme.
The cash is believed to have been used to repay their supercar loans and pay hire for the high-rise condominium the place the Saitos dwell.
According to the sources, the couple from Tokyo’s Toyosu Ward and Nomura from Yokohama chased vehicles primarily with a supercar and stopped them, claiming that their priceless automobile had been hit by a stone.
In Tokyo and 10 different prefectures, they known as police or introduced their very own licenses to take footage of the truck drivers’ licenses.
They used the private info of the truck drivers to create a number of financial institution accounts and bank cards and rented a number of rooms below the names of the drivers to obtain the playing cards by mail.
