地下銀行:非法向中国匯出款項被逮捕

A few weeks ago the Mainichi News on-line reported the following:

地下銀行:中国へ不正送金容疑で逮捕

毎日新聞　2014年09月16日　20時54分

　無免許で中国に不正送金する「地下銀行」を運営したとして、大阪、兵庫、京都など６府県警の合同捜査本部は１６日、東京都葛飾区、中国籍の飲食店アルバイト、林娟容疑者（２７）を銀行法違反の疑いで逮捕したと発表した。林容疑者は警官を装って現金をだまし取る詐欺グループの現金回収役とされ、「回収した金を中国・福建省のグループに送った」と供述しているという。捜査本部は実態解明を進める方針だ。

　逮捕容疑は昨年５月〜今年７月、詐欺事件とは無関係の中国人女性５人から預かった計約１３００万円を、銀行業の免許を持たずに中国に送金したとされる。

　大阪府警捜査２課によると、林容疑者から現金を受け取った中国人の貿易商が、日本国内で高級腕時計などを購入。物品を中国に送って売り、売上金の一部を現地の仲間に渡す手口で送金していた。貿易商は事情を知らなかったという。

　警官を装った詐欺事件では捜査本部が林容疑者らを詐欺容疑などで逮捕。被害総額は約１億２８００万円に上り、大半が中国に送金されたとみられる。

　大阪地検は、林容疑者の詐欺容疑について刑事処分を保留している。【津久井達、遠藤浩二】

(試譯文)

On the 16th (September) a joint investigation command center of the Police from six prefectures such as Osaka, Hyogo, and Kyoto announced the arrest of a suspect Lin Juan (27) at Katsushika-district who was China nationality working as a restaurant part-time worker in Tokyo. He was suspected of violating the banking act in managing a Chinese "underground bank" by doing unlawful remittance without a license. Suspect Lin was playing the role of cash flow-back for a fraud group that pretended to be policemen to steal cash. He said that "the cash collected were remitted to a group in Fujian of China". Investigation headquarters was planning to further its understanding on the actual situation.

It was supposed that this arrest was made on suspicion that a total of about 13 million yen kept by five Chinese women who were unrelated to fraud cases had been remitted to China in May last year to July this year without a banking license.

According to two Osaka prefecture police criminal investigations, a Chinese trader who received cash from suspect Lin, as a means to remit cash, purchased high-class wrist watches etc. in Japan. Goods were sent to China and sold, and a part of the proceed was passed to the friends on the spot. The trader said that he knew nothing about such a situation.

Regarding the fraud case of pretending to be the policemen, the investigation headquarters arrested suspect Lin and others for the alleged fraud etc. The view held was that the total illegal amount went up to about 128 million yen, and most of them had been remitted to China.

The Osaka District Prosecutor's Office was pending criminal prosecution on suspect Lin’s alleged fraud.

  One hundred and twenty-eight million yen illegal money is a lot of money. It seems that Chinese "underground bank" was very well organized.