A 35-year-old company employee from Kanazawa and his 24-year-old wife were arrested on suspicion of filming women in a bathing facility's changing room and selling the videos on social media, Kyoto Prefectural Police's Yamashina station said on the 5th.
Daichi Nakatake and his wife Misato are suspected of conspiring to film three women with a smartphone at a bathing facility in Ishikawa Prefecture on three occasions between May and July, and of selling the footage to three men over social media. Both were arrested on suspicion of violating the Act on Punishment of Photographing of Sexual Images (filming and providing).
Nakatake admitted the allegation, telling police: "There is no mistake that I had my wife film women at the bathing facility and was selling those videos." Misato also admitted the charge, saying: "I filmed women's naked bodies."
The station believes, based on the couple's statements, that they sold roughly five-minute videos for 2,000 yen each.
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