Japanese police leave for Cambodia to bring home fraud suspects
Aichi prefectural police have obtained arrest warrants for 29 people on suspicion of defrauding a person in the Kanto region. They allegedly made a series of calls while impersonating police officers.
Investigative sources say the suspects range in age from under 20 to their 50s. They were taken into custody and detained in May at a compound in the northwestern city of Poipet near the Thai border where the scheme was reportedly conducted.
The Japanese suspects have since been transferred to a detention center in Phnom Penh.
The investigators plan to arrest them upon their return to Japan. They will also analyze computers and smartphones confiscated at the compound and try to shed light on scam syndicates based overseas.
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Japanese police leave for Cambodia to bring home fraud suspects
About 80 Japanese police investigators left for Cambodia on Tuesday morning to bring home and arrest Japanese nationals suspected of being part of a fraud scheme. Aichi prefectural police have obtained arrest warrants for 29 people on suspicion of defrauding a person in the Kanto region. They allegedly made a series of calls while impersonating police officers. Investigative sources say the suspects range in age from under 20 to their 50s. They were taken into custody and detained in May at a compound in the northwestern city of Poipet near the Thai border where the scheme was reportedly conducted. The Japanese suspects have since been transferred to a detention center in Phnom Penh. The investigators plan to arrest them upon their return to Japan. They will also analyze computers and smartphones confiscated at the compound and try to shed light on scam syndicates based overseas.
