Ossifier of the law: Arizona driver uses fake skeleton to get into special lane
A 62-year-old man has been cited in Arizona after disguising a fake skeleton as a passenger in order to use the high-occupancy vehicle lane. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says a trooper pulled over the man on Thursday after noticing he had placed a ...
Nepal on Wednesday deported 122 Chinese nationals who were arrested on suspicion of operating a large-scale cyber fraud operation in Kathmandu, officials said. Police made the arrests last month in raids on nine houses that were set up like hostels with large kitchens, bunk beds ...
Theft from online accounts and transfers in Japan soared to ¥776 million in November
A sharp rise in the number of illegal withdrawals from online bank accounts has been reported in recent months, according to the National Police Agency. In November, 573 cases of unauthorized withdrawals from internet banking accounts and money transfers, amounting to ¥776 million, were reported, ...
Dozens of Chinese nationals have been arrested in Indonesia over an online scam that bilked victims out of millions of dollars, authorities said Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off from their Chinese counterparts, Indonesian police said they conducted a half dozen raids Monday evening in the ...
A group of 36 Japanese men have been detained in Manila over an alleged phone scam targeting people in Japan, Philippine immigration sources said Thursday. Based on information from Japanese investigative authorities, the immigration bureau detained the men at a hotel in Manila on Wednesday ...
National Public Safety Commission tackles topics from elderly driving to Tokyo Olympics security
The government will consider various measures to prevent traffic accidents involving elderly drivers, including the introduction of a new driver's license category with special limitations, National Public Safety Commission Chairman Ryota Takeda has said. "Many kinds of measures will be needed to prevent accidents, as ...
Tokyo 2020 organizers reveal that 6,900 tickets were bought with fake IDs
Organizers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics said Friday that about 6,900 tickets sold in the first phase of a domestic lottery in May were bought with fake IDs. Organizers revealed that some 30,000 of the official IDs required to make a ticket application ...
U.S. charges Nissan and ex-CEO Carlos Ghosn with hiding $140 million from investors
U.S. securities regulators have charged Nissan and its embattled former CEO, Carlos Ghosn, with hiding more than $140 million in Ghosn's expected retirement income from investors. Ghosn will pay $1 million in fines to settle the matter without admitting wrongdoing, and will be barred from ...
300 more Chinese arrested in Philippines cybercrime sweep on top of 277 nabbed over investment scams
Philippines immigration agents, backed by troops, have arrested more than 300 Chinese for alleged cybercrimes, a week after a similar number were detained during a raid linked to investment fraud. The Bureau of Immigration late Tuesday said 324 Chinese nationals were arrested in Puerto Princesa ...
North Korea may have been involved in a case in which ¥1.86 billion was withdrawn fraudulently from ATMs in Japan in 2016, a U.N. panel said in an interim report on Thursday. The cash was withdrawn all at once early on May 15, 2016, from ...
Police warn Olympic ticket lottery winners to be vigilant
The second ticket lottery for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics closed on Aug. 19 for an estimated 4.16 million residents of Japan who came up empty-handed in the initial draw. The results are expected to be announced on Sept. 11 for an additional 700,000 or so ...
Tokyo FM Broadcasting admits fiddling the books to hide subsidiary's losses
Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co. said Wednesday that it engaged in improper accounting practices to hide a subsidiary's losses. The practices involved share transactions designed to exclude the struggling digital broadcasting unit from Tokyo FM's consolidated earnings. Specifically, Tokyo FM had a company close to the then ...
