Overview
- A joint task force of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and Kanagawa Prefectural Police took the suspects into custody after their transfer from Cambodian detention.
- Investigators suspect the group operated as "kakeko" placing fraudulent calls from a hub in Cambodia.
- The case centers on calls last October–November that posed as police to a Sagamihara woman in her 60s, allegedly extracting ¥11 million via a designated account.
- The 13 consist of men and women in their 20s to 60s with unknown addresses and occupations, including 20-year-old Kosei Saeki named in reports.
- The group arrived on three flights to Haneda and Narita between the night of Jan. 13 and the morning of Jan. 14, following initial detention by Cambodian authorities in early November.