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Tokyo Reported
20-07-2025
- Tokyo Reported
Pakistani brothers suspected of trying to export stolen cars
KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police last week arrested two Pakistani brothers for making false declarations to customs officials and attempting to export two stolen Toyota cars, reports Jiji Press (July 16). On July 16, police accused Naseebullah, the 38-year-old director of car export company Idrees Trading and his younger brother, 36-year-old Nakibullah, of violating the violating the Customs Act. The suspects were accused of making a false application to Yokohama Customs on January 31 for attempting to export two stolen cars — with a total market value of approximately 9.3 million yen — to the United Arab Emirates. Nakibullah works for his brother at Idrees Trading, which is located in Namegata City, Ibaraki Prefecture. According to police, the incident was discovered on February 18 when customs officials notified them that vehicles different from those listed on the application documents had been loaded into a container. When the cars were examined, it was discovered that a Lexus had been stolen from a private home in Kyoto City between the end of last year and the beginning of this year. As well, there was a Crown that had been stolen from a parking lot in Yokohama City. Prefectural police are investigating how the suspects obtained the cars.
Tokyo Reported
18-07-2025
- Tokyo Reported
Pair suspected of using illegal online casino profits to buy Tokyo apartment
KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested two men who are suspected of concealing illegal profits earned from an online casino site and using them to purchase an apartment in Tokyo, reports Nippon News Network (July 18). According to the police, Yoshinori Kurata, 42, and Yoshifumi Kuroki, 52, are suspected of concealing illegal profits earned from an online casino site in 2022 and using more than 98 million yen to purchase the apartment in a high-rise in Harumi, Chuo Ward. Police did not reveal whether the suspects admit to violating the Organized Crime Punishment Act regarding concealment of criminal proceeds. According to police, the two suspects conspired to create false documents stating that the funds were a loan to Kurata from a non-existent paper company when they purchased the apartment around July 2022. The apartment was on an upper floor of the 51-story high-rise apartment building. Kurata made the payment in cash. Yoshinori Kurata (X) Money laundering Kurata runs a company that manages payments. Last month, he was one of seven suspects accused of money laundering, reports the Sankei Shimbun (June 25). According to police, he and the other suspects laundered over 2.6 billion yen in bets on overseas online casinos by transferring the money to an account managed by his company. In April and May of last year, the company concealed a total of about 2.629 billion yen in casino bets collected from about 3,600 users by depositing the money into two accounts managed by his company 41,000 times in total. Police said previously that Kurata and his group may have been involved in the operation of payment systems related to at least six online casino sites. The two accounts were in the name of a paper company. It is believed that the company managed about 500 accounts, including these, and repeatedly transferred funds.
Japan Times
12-07-2025
- Japan Times
Man arrested for alleged murder in Kawasaki woman's case
Police arrested a man on Saturday, alleging he murdered his former girlfriend, whose body was found at his house in the city of Kawasaki in late April. The Kanagawa Prefectural Police department suspects that Hideyuki Shirai, 28, killed Asahi Okazaki, a 20-year-old part-time worker, in or near the prefecture around Dec. 20 last year. The police are continuing to investigate the method used in the murder, as well as other circumstances surrounding the high-profile crime. Shirai has declined to comment on the case during police questioning. He has already been indicted on suspicion of abandoning Okazaki's body and stalking her. Okazaki went missing last December when she was staying at her grandmother's house in Kawasaki. The police found her body under the floor of Shirai's house during their raid on the residence in late April this year. The woman's body, found in a bag, was burnt severely and partially skeletonized. The cause of her death has yet to be determined. On May 3, the prefectural police said that the body was that of Okazaki and they arrested Shirai upon his return from abroad for allegedly abandoning her body. Shirai was then arrested in late May on suspicion of stalking Okazaki. He was later indicted over the charges. The victim and her relatives repeatedly consulted with the prefectural police, claiming that she was being harassed and stalked by Shirai. After Dec. 20, 2024, when Okazaki went missing, the police had questioned the suspect on a voluntary basis seven times in total by March this year. However, it was after Shirai left Japan that the police department searched his house. A team set up by the department is investigating whether there were any flaws in the police's handling of the case.
Tokyo Reported
12-07-2025
- Tokyo Reported
Vietnamese national accused of smuggling Ketamine
KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police have arrested a male Vietnamese technical intern trainee for smuggling the drug ketamine for the purpose of sale last year, reports TV Asahi (July 12). Truong Vuyet Hung, 28, is suspected of smuggling approximately 2.1 kilograms of ketamine, worth 42 million yen, for the purpose of selling it by hiding it in a cardboard box that was sent by mail from Slovakia last December. According to police, the ketamine was in bags wrapped in silver paper concealed inside the cardboard box, which contained toys and sweets. The ketamine was in bags wrapped in silver paper concealed inside a cardboard box containing toys and sweets (X) Police did not reveal whether Truong admits to violating the Narcotics Control Act. Two other men have already been arrested in the case. It is believed that Truong gave them instructions over the phone. Police believe Truong and his accomplices have smuggled a total of approximately 100 million yen worth of ketamine. Police are investigating whether a criminal syndicate is behind the smuggling.
Tokyo Reported
12-07-2025
- Tokyo Reported
Frenchman, 61, accused of lewd acts with woman on Fujisawa street
KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police arrested this week arrested a 61-year-old French man over alleged lewd acts with a woman in Fujisawa City, reports the Kanagawa Shimbun (July 10). On Wednesday afternoon, the unnamed suspect, who claims to be an office worker, allegedly committed lewd acts on the woman, including hugging her, on a street. Upon his arrest on suspicion of non-consensual indecent assault, the man, who lives in Sagamihara City's Midori Ward, denied the charges. 'I was arrested, but the facts are not correct,' the suspect told the Fujisawa-Kita Police Station. After the incident, the woman called police. Officers arrived and found the man at the scene.
