Japanese men arrested in crime against countryman

BANGKOK: -- Two Japanese nationals were arrested at an apartment house in the Chong Nonsri area of central Bangkok on charges of stealing money and belongings from a fellow countryman last month, police said on Friday.

The men suspected of theft, identified as Kosa Taszukasa and Shida Toshifumi, were arrested by a raid unit of the First Provincial Police. Police were seeking another Japanese national, identified as Koiji Oki and a Filipino woman named Quittay, alias Joy, who were yet to be arrested as accomplices of the detained suspects.

The alleged gangsters were accused of conspiring to steal 720,000 yen in cash and a camera valued at some 35,000 yen from their Japanese victim, identified as Tanikuchi Kazumi, at a hotel in Ayutthaya province.

In the hotel room, the Japanese gangsters allegedly inebriated Mr. Kazumi, whom they had lured through the internet to come to Thailand, before they stripped the unconscious victim of his money.

The detained suspects confessed to the theft charges and were also charged with illegal entry into Thailand. Police were investigating whether or not the suspects might be connected with a Yakuza gang linked to the killing of a Japanese woman tourist during Loy Krathong last year in Sukhothai province.

--TNA 2008-02-16

Japanese men arrested in crime against countryman

BANGKOK: -- Two Japanese nationals were arrested at an apartment house in the Chong Nonsri area of central Bangkok on charges of stealing money and belongings from a fellow countryman last month, police said on Friday.

The men suspected of theft, identified as Kosa Taszukasa and Shida Toshifumi, were arrested by a raid unit of the First Provincial Police. Police were seeking another Japanese national, identified as Koiji Oki and a Filipino woman named Quittay, alias Joy, who were yet to be arrested as accomplices of the detained suspects.

The alleged gangsters were accused of conspiring to steal 720,000 yen in cash and a camera valued at some 35,000 yen from their Japanese victim, identified as Tanikuchi Kazumi, at a hotel in Ayutthaya province.

In the hotel room, the Japanese gangsters allegedly inebriated Mr. Kazumi, whom they had lured through the internet to come to Thailand, before they stripped the unconscious victim of his money.

The detained suspects confessed to the theft charges and were also charged with illegal entry into Thailand. Police were investigating whether or not the suspects might be connected with a Yakuza gang linked to the killing of a Japanese woman tourist during Loy Krathong last year in Sukhothai province.

--TNA 2008-02-16

This is the first I've heard of this????