日截獲用假指紋入境者

Recently NHK News reported the following:

過去に強制退去され、日本に入国できない韓国人が、他人になりすまして不法に入国するためにシリコンを使って指紋を偽造していた男が韓国の警察に逮捕されました。
逮捕されたのは４３歳の韓国人の男です。ソウルの警察によりますと、男は、過去に不法滞在で強制退去となったため日本に再入国できなくなった韓国人１３人の指紋をシリコン樹脂で偽造した疑いが持たれています。男は、知り合いをだまして指紋の提供を受け、シリコン樹脂に転写する方法で偽の指紋を作っていたもので、１３人は、これを指にはり付けて不法入国を試み、このうち８人が羽田と青森などの空港で審査をくぐり抜けていたということです。警察は、主犯格で、中国に逃亡している男２人を国際指名手配するとともに、偽造を依頼した１３人と、依頼者を男らに紹介した男女、あわせて１７人を書類送検しました。

A man was arrested by the South Korean police for helping South Korean who in the past had faced compulsory eviction and could not enter Japan again, disguising them as others in order to enter the country unlawfully using silicon to counterfeit fingerprints.

The arrested man was a 43-year-old South Korean. According to the police in Seoul, this man was suspected of using silicon resin to counterfeit fingerprints of 13 South Koreans who were not allowed to enter Japan again because they had a forced displacement due to illegal residence in the past. This man received fingerprints by cheating his acquaintances to offer them, then made fingerprint imitation by method of transcribing, using silicone resin, and offered them to 13 people who tried to enter Japan illegally, among them eight people tried to pass through the examination in the airport in Haneda and Aomori, etc and it was said that these fingerprints came off. According to the police, two men who were the principal offenders had escaped to China and were on the wanted list internationally, the 13 clients together with the men and women who introduced them to these two men to request the counterfeiting totaling 17 people had their reports sent to the police.

Some people are trying to enter Japan illegally, using many different ingenious ways.