
暗号資産「テザー」に換え隠匿か、少なくとも40億円関与か
宮崎県警は29日、特殊詐欺などの犯罪収益を暗号資産に換えて資金洗浄したとして、組織犯罪処罰法違反の疑いで会社役員の清水大貴容疑者ら男3人を逮捕した。同グループは少なくとも40億円の資金洗浄に関与したとみられる。
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特殊詐欺グループの犯罪収益が暗号資産を利用してマネーロンダリングされる事件が相次いでいる。
特殊詐欺などの犯罪収益を暗号資産に換えてマネーロンダリング(資金洗浄)したとして、宮崎県警は29日、組織犯罪処罰法違反(犯罪収益隠匿)の疑いで、いずれも会社役員の清水大貴(26)=東京都目黒区青葉台、父親の英明(58)=新宿区新小川町=両容疑者ら男3人を逮捕した。認否は明らかにしていない。
特殊詐欺疑い、中核の男逮捕 複数グループに指示か
他に逮捕されたのは覚王雅彦容疑者(39)=千葉県成田市玉造。
県警によると、大貴容疑者らのグループは2025年10月~26年4月、特殊詐欺グループから依頼を受けるなどして、少なくとも40億円の資金洗浄に関与したとみられる。
逮捕容疑は昨年10月と今年2月、氏名不詳の特殊詐欺グループがだまし取った詐取金を含む計約340万円について、大貴容疑者らが管理する口座に送金させ、暗号資産「テザー」と交換して隠匿した疑い。

On the 29th, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications filed a criminal complaint with the Toyama Prefectural Police against an employee of Toyama City on suspicion of inflating the population by at least 2,000 people in the 2025 census, and for violating the Statistics Act. Mayor Hirohisa Fujii apologized, but denied that the aim was to maintain 400,000 people.

A former executive of the SBC Shonan Beauty Clinic Group, a major cosmetic medical company, was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of repeatedly placing orders for fictitious website security measures with an acquaintance's company, causing losses of approximately 13 million yen to the affiliated company.

A knife with blood stains was found near the murder scene of Yuka Tezuka in a private house in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture. Prefectural police have referred the suspect, Miharu Nozomi, who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder to her eldest son, to the public prosecutor's office, and both weapons are being investigated as possible murder weapons. The suspect stated that he had prepared a knife to kill him.

At around 4:15 a.m. on the 29th, a passenger car and a truck collided head-on at a national highway intersection in Soga, Chuo Ward, Chiba City, resulting in the deaths of three of the four people in the car. The 19-year-old man driving the truck was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and the 57-year-old man driving the truck also had minor injuries. Prefectural police believe that the car crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with the vehicle, and are investigating the exact cause of the accident.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division arrested Shinobu Ishihara (53), a self-proclaimed real estate agent, on suspicion of providing real estate customer information to an anonymous and mobile criminal group (Tokuryu) and being involved in an attempted robbery. Ishihara had planned to provide the couple's address and family structure to Yasuhiro Nakajima and receive 50% of the money and goods he stole, but the attempt failed due to resistance from the couple. The department has so far arrested a total of seven people involved.

Two Chilean men who were arrested in connection with the theft of four luxury watches (worth a total selling price of approximately 200 million yen) from a watch store in Nakano Broadway, a commercial facility in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, were arrested again on the 28th on suspicion of theft, etc., after stealing watches from a private house in Ota Ward three days before the incident. The two arrived at Haneda Airport from Australia the day before, broke a display case with a hammer at a watch store in Nakano Ward on the 25th, stole four luxury brand watches, and fled, before being arrested in Osaka on the 27th.