Tokyo police have arrested 4 folks together with a former president of human sources consulting agency President for allegedly luring their targets into multilevel advertising and marketing, utilizing relationship apps, final yr, regardless of orders for the suspension of community marketing-related enterprise.
Arrested by the Metropolitan Police Division for alleged violations of the regulation regulating specified industrial transactions have been Arata Sakamoto, the 30-year-old former head of President, Kazuto Omori, 26, president of administration consulting firm Monolith, Hiro Okudera, 28, president of consulting agency Pioneer, and Honami Morita, 28, president of consulting firm Extra.
They’re suspected of luring a number of folks, together with a Tokyo resident in his 20s, into multilevel advertising and marketing round April-June final yr though Sakamoto, Omori and Okudera have been banned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Authorities from doing enterprise associated to community advertising and marketing beneath the regulation between March 2023 and December the identical yr after they have been discovered to have employed inappropriate soliciting practices.