Two men accused of posing as police officers on a video call and tricking a woman into undressing have been rearrested on suspicion of nonconsensual indecent assault and filming a sexual image, Mie Prefectural Police said on the 10th.
The suspects are Takumi Oi, 31, and Sho Okada, 28, both unemployed and of no fixed address. Police did not disclose whether they admit or deny the allegations.
According to the rearrest warrants, the two acted together between about 4:50 p.m. and 5:05 p.m. on January 31. They are suspected of calling the woman, in her 20s and living in Mie Prefecture, over video from a phone-scam base in the Philippines.
Posing as police officers, they told her she needed a physical examination to check whether she was a member of a criminal group, according to the allegations. They then had her undress and photographed her with a smartphone, police said.
Investigators believe the two had her undress and took the photos immediately after defrauding her of 300,000 yen while posing as police. Police rearrested four people, two men and two women including Oi and Okada, on suspicion of fraud over that 300,000 yen.
The four are believed to belong to a group of kakeko — the callers who pose as police or officials in phone scams — operating out of Cambodia and the Philippines.