Car Delivery Fraud Suspect Witnessed “Crying to the Police” Before the Incident Was Uncovered

However, after December 28, 2021, the “request line” that Kotani had been receiving daily from the suspect suddenly stopped. When people who were waiting for the delivery of their cars tried to contact him, they could no longer even “read” the message. One of the victims stated, “I used to receive messages every day.

I was fed up with the daily messages, but during the year-end and New Year’s holidays, the messages were never read, and when I went to the store, I found that the store was a shell of a monkee.

Kotani was last seen at the Nagano Minami Police Station on December 27, 2021. In other words, it was the day before the line sent by Kotani to the customer was suddenly cut off. A victim who is different from the person who made the comment at the beginning of this report revealed, “The president [of the company] (Kotani) was the one who sent the lines.

The president (Kotani) was under collection from the black market money lenders, which he had feared the most. The president, who was disabled due to a stroke, was unable to fight back, so he was terrified and cried out to the police, saying, ‘I’ll tell you everything I’ve done so far, and I want you to protect me and help me.

Even if he returned to his home, he could no longer go back to his home because there was a fear that black market money agents might come to his home again. Furthermore, it seems that the relatives and acquaintances he wanted to rely on had also turned him down, and the desperate president had no choice but to flee.

Since Kotani disappeared after December 28 of last year, it is believed that only a few victims were discovered after 2022, but if he had been kept under some form of surveillance, it is possible that at least the few victims discovered this year could have been spared. On the other hand, it seems safe to assume that this “crying wolf” incident was the turning point that led to his arrest for fraud.

Did the Kotani suspect really visit the Nagano Minami Police Station? If it is true that he “cried out” to the police for fear of collection from black market dealers, why did the police not keep Kotani under surveillance while interviewing him? The police officer in charge of the police station said, “It is a matter of investigative information.

The Shinano Mainichi Shimbun reported, “We cannot answer the question, including whether or not the suspect did or did not visit the Nagano Minami Police Station, because it is a matter of investigative information.

According to the Shinano Mainichi Shimbun, Kotani was not in Nagano but at a nursing home in Saitama Prefecture when he was arrested. He had been living quietly without talking to others while receiving public assistance.

Even if Kotani is arrested this time, there is still no prospect whether or not he will be reimbursed for his crimes, which may have further increased the anger of the victims. I am by no means the only one who wants to see the will of the police in the investigation after the arrest.