Editorial

16:51 JST, July 30, 2025

If funds that should be used to compensate victims of investment scams and other crimes are being illicitly withdrawn from frozen bank accounts, this cannot be overlooked. Measures to prevent the outflow of these funds are urgently needed.

The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested three individuals, including a de facto manager of a consulting company in Tokyo, on suspicion of fraud and other charges.

The three are suspected of faking the lending of ¥6.5 million to a systems-related company in Tokyo, then having authorities implement compulsory executions of funds from the company’s bank account that had been frozen, and fraudulently withdrawing ¥6.1 million.

Compulsory executions are a procedure in which a court confiscates a debtor’s assets based on a creditor’s........

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