Police in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture, have arrested a 16-year-old high school boy and his 18-year-old sister, a restaurant employee, on suspicion of of violating the Employment Security Act by attempting to recruit so-called "illegal part-time workers" on social media.
According to the police, the two are suspected of posting on social media from around Oct 10 to Oct 20 messages such as “Earn high income in a short period of time. If anyone wants to do it, please contact me," TV Asahi reported.
Police believe the siblings were looking for “receivers" and "distributors" to pick up cash in fraud cases.
A high school student who is an acquaintance of the 16-year-old boy saw the post and applied. He was directed to a highly confidential communication app, where he sent personal information such as his address and family composition.
When he became suspicious and tried to decline, he received threatening messages saying "You will need to pay damages,” so he consulted the police.
Police believe that the two siblings were instructed by another person who is part of an anonymous mobile crime group known as Tokuryu) that recruits members on social media to commit crimes.
This is the first time that a charge of violating the Employment Security Act has been applied in Kumamoto Prefecture in connection with unlawful part-time work.
© Japan Today
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sakurasuki
From Employment Security Act
https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4013/en
person that has carried out or been engaged in employment placement, recruitment of a worker, or worker supply by means of assault, intimidation
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Many blue collar job in Japan that having difficulty in securing job sometimes do this, that's why they need foreign trainee where those trainee can't complain and not aware about the law.
falseflagsteve
Ruddy hell, it’s gets worser all the time. Even at this age they find people to commit heinous crimes against the innocent.
Zaphod
The police seems pretty good at arresting the kids who join these criminal schemes at the low end, but unable to get to the organizers on top.
virusrex
That is the whole point of having these kind of system, so the organizers can be much more difficult to catch while the low level criminals become scapegoats without any real information to give the police about the higher ups.
lostrune2
Don't hire illegals