Two Chinese men have been arrested for allegedly making and selling fake residence cards for foreigners, Tokyo police said Friday, suspecting the pair may have been involved in producing thousands of counterfeit identity documents.
Du Jingjiang, 35, and Li Long, 36, both living in Tokyo's Ota Ward, allegedly conspired with other individuals to create 30 counterfeit residence cards around April 8, using computers at home. They took orders via social media.
Du and Li, arrested on Wednesday, had already been accused of overstaying. Du was quoted by police as saying he worked from home to avoid being noticed.
Du is suspected of printing cards with forged identity information supplied by other persons, while Li mailed the cards. Each card is believed to been sold for around 10,000 yen ($69).
The two could have been involved in making at least 7,500 fake identity documents, including driver's licenses, for about five months from November, according to the police.
In Japan, foreign nationals staying in the country for at least three months are in principle issued residence cards that include information such as their eligibility to work and visa status as well as their name and date of birth.
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garymalmgren
If you copy/paste the photo, you can zoom in and identify about half of the home countries.
Quite diverse.
WA4TKG
Anything to anyone
WA4TKG
Mine legal one looked more like a mug shot
リッチ
I hope any company employing these users as well as petiole using them are roundup and fined and deported and banned for life on returning.
Lindsay
When I first came to Japan they were little more than a business card that could have been photocopied. Even these modern ones don’t have good security measures on them (obviously). I got picked up by the cops for illegal parking back in the mid-2000’s and they did a full work over on my alien card to check its legitimacy. They told me then that there were a lot of fake cards around. That was over twenty years ago so it’s not as if this is something new. What have they done about it? Nothing, of course. They still use the same cards with next to zero security measures.
By the way, if the j-flops ask you for your card you don’t give to them. You only have to show them you have one.
8T
JGOV should give them a job.
kwatt
Fake is a crime. Better get a right one.
sakurasuki
Of course nothing, that just Japan.
sakurasuki
Wondering a bit, which nationalities are their main customer.
bo
Entrepreneurial skills showing here ! Bad luck they got caught !