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Taniguchi was arrested after being transferred from Indonesia.He has a tanned face, thick arms extending from a black short-sleeved shirt, and sharp eyes. The man transported from Indonesia did not lose his fearless expression as he entered the police vehicle.   On June 22, the Investigation Division 2 of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested Mitsuhiro Taniguchi, 47, a suspect of unknown occupation, on suspicion of fraud. The suspect is suspected of cheating a woman in her 70s, who was not eligible to receive the subsidy, out of 1 million yen in benefits from the government for sustaining measures against the new type of coronavirus by submitting a fraudulent application on her behalf. The suspect, Taniguchi, together with his ex-wife, Rie (45), and his eldest son, Daikyo (22), are believed to have fraudulently received benefits amounting to 1 billion yen between May and September 2020. “The number of false applications totaled to approximately 1,780. The suspects held seminars in Roppongi, Tokyo, and other locations, explaining to participants that anyone can receive benefits. They called themselves ‘financial planners’ and ‘investment professionals’. Taniguchi fled to Indonesia in October 2020 and disappeared. However, in June of this year and upon request from Japan, Indonesian authorities took Taniguchi into custody on suspicion of illegal stay. He was arrested on board a flight to Japan,” said a reporter from the society section of a national newspaper. Driving a bright red Ferrari

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