Tokyo police have just arrested a Vietnamese officer studying at the Japan National Defense Academy on suspicion of selling residence cards, Japanese media quoted the Tokyo police announcement as saying on January 21.
Accordingly, the organized crime control agency of the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department arrested Do Tuan Nghia, 23 years old, of Vietnamese nationality and a third-year student at the National Defense Academy, currently living in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on suspicion of violating the country’s Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, the Mainichi newspaper reported.
The Vietnamese student allegedly used a home delivery service to send a residence card bearing his name from a convenience store in Yokosuka City to an apartment in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo on February 24, 2021.
At that time, another young Vietnamese man named Dang Quoc Nam, 22 years old, was living in the apartment above. Dang Quoc Nam was also arrested by the Japanese police on suspicion of receiving a residence card with another person’s name.
Police said Dang Quoc Nam posted a message on a job search website that read, “I will pay 200,000 yen (about $1,800) if a cell phone contract is settled.”
Then, Nghia contacted Nam and was asked by Nam to send his residence card to him.
Police said the two admitted to the charges against them, and Do Tuan Nghia testified that he “needed money” because he “liked to buy branded goods.”
The Japanese police confirmed that the above residence card was used to contract three mobile phones and that the card could be used by a group of fraudsters.
Currently, the case is still under investigation.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
