Two female construction company executives are re-arrested on suspicion of soliciting special fraud "kakeko" overseas

On the 7th, Hiroshima Prefectural Police announced that they had re-arrested a female construction company executive (32) and a former female executive (30), both from Asaminami Ward, Hiroshima City, on suspicion of attempting to kidnap and deport them overseas and violating the Employment Security Act, for allegedly soliciting a "kakeko" who made special fraudulent calls and attempting to send them overseas. The two reportedly deny the charges, saying, ``We did not solicit anyone to carry out a crime.''

According to prefectural police, the two women are suspected of colluding with another person in March and April to tell an unemployed man (35) over the phone that they would introduce him to a job, then introduce him to a job related to a crime, saying, ``As part of a scam, he would take me overseas for about six months,'' and tried to transport him overseas.

The man had previously had a job interview with this construction company. The man then refused the job and consulted the prefectural police.

The two men were arrested on suspicion of sending a man in his 40s overseas using a similar tactic, including kidnapping and deporting him overseas. The man crossed to Thailand and rushed to the Japanese embassy, ​​where the incident was discovered.

Prefectural police believe that the two men acted as recruiters for Kakeko. A series of investigations revealed a fraudulent phone call script impersonating a police officer. Investigators believe that a person in cahoots with the two men made the people they solicited read scripts through video calls and other means to determine whether they were suitable as playwrights.