Nigerian Nabbed in Japan for Drug Smuggling thru Romance Scam

   Tokyo, April 25 (Jiji Press)--Japanese police have arrested a Nigerian man for allegedly smuggling 15.9 kilograms of stimulant drugs worth about 957 million yen from Britain in September 2021, using his Japanese romance scam victim.
   The joint investigation headquarters of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department and the prefectural police department of Okayama, western Japan, arrested Ozo Chibuzor Chris, a Nigerian restaurant manager and resident of Tokyo's Setagaya Ward, on suspicion of violating the stimulant drugs control law.
   The MPD did not disclose whether the suspect admitted to the allegation.
   According to the MPD, the suspect's group pretended to be a British woman and contacted the Japanese man, who is in his 60s and lives in Okayama, on social media in October 2020. After exchanging messages for nearly a year, the group asked the Japanese man to go to Yokohama, south of Tokyo, to pick up luggage.
   The Japanese man agreed to receive it for "her," not knowing that the content was stimulant drugs. But he later refused to receive it, citing his health problems.

(2024/04/25-21:38)

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