755 business trips to Kara, luxury brand goods for his wife with back taxes… Fraud of a large company “24 million yen in illegal conversion of Shinkansen” shudder report

In June of this year, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested a woman in her 40s, B, on suspicion of violating the Organized Crime Punishment Law (receipt of criminal proceeds). B’s husband is a former general manager of Rakuten Mobile, and he and his wife were arrested on suspicion of violating the same law (concealment of proceeds of crime).

Her husband began billing Rakuten Mobile in July 2009 for padded outsourcing fees for the construction of cell phone base stations, and apparently defrauded the company out of nearly 10 billion yen. Several subcontractors were allegedly involved in the fraud. B was the representative director of one of these companies. The executive compensation he received amounted to approximately 27 million yen per month.

The couple was living a luxurious life with a huge amount of slush fund, and a large number of ultra-luxury brand goods, including a Louis Vuitton vanity case valued at no less than 10 million yen, were seized from the top floor of the tower apartment where they were living.

The couple’s social networking site also shows their extravagant lifestyle. The couple’s social networking messages showed their extravagant lifestyle: “We bought a Chanel for 2.4 million yen,” “We ordered a Lexus (in addition to a luxury Ferrari),” etc.” (see above).

Because large corporations are large organizations, the amount of damage caused by fraud is also enormous. The suspects must have gradually lost their sense of guilt as they lived an elegant life cloaked in false pretenses with back taxes. It seems that they were unable to put a stop to it until the case came to light.