2024-03-13 05:27:30
Picture: TOKEMATCH official website (Wayback Machine captures past data)
[Yahoo News Report]A store in Osaka, Japan, that stores and rents watches for customers, is suspected of embezzling customers’ property. Some netizens said that their watches were being sold online, and the company had closed down at the end of January. Japanese police said that after investigation, they found that the suspect sold watches through different channels in January and made at least 150 million yen (HK$7.8 million). One of the persons involved in the case has fled overseas and will be wanted through Interpol. make. A victim group even stated that it is estimated that as many as 860 watches were lost, with a total value of US$13 million (approximately HK$100 million).
The watch owner earns over a thousand dollars every month
Japanese media reported that the company involved in the case was「TOKEMATCH」. The company initially promoted the idea of ”enjoying a new form of watch life”, emphasizing that customers could hand over their extra watches to the shop, who would then rent the watches to customers who needed to attend important occasions or who wanted to indulge in handcrafting for a short period of time. The Lord can profit from it. A customer said that he once handed over a Rolex watch to TOKEMATCH and earned an average of 24,900 yen (approximately HK$1,300) a month.
However, on January 31 this year, the company suddenly announced its closure on its official website. After that, some netizens expressed that they could not retrieve the watches stored in TOKEMATCH. Another netizen said that he found his watch on a second-hand watch website and believed that someone had pocketed it.《Japan Broadcasting Association》ReportJapanese police have arrested a 38-year-old former TOKEMATCH employee Daisuke Nagata, who is suspected of selling a Rolex watch to a second-hand shop in Tokyo in January, making a profit of 1.7 million yen (approximately HK$88,000).
According to information on TOKEMATCH’s website before its closure, customers can rent watches for 19,800 yen (approximately HK$1,000) for some of the watches that are still on sale.
At the end of last year, there was a promotion to encourage customers to deposit tables
Japanese police said that after investigation, it was discovered that TOKEMATCH was used in November last year.Have held promotionsencouraged customers to store their watches, but there was no evidence that they rented out their watches again.
In addition, the police investigation also found that the 42-year-old company leader Keiji Fukuhara took a flight to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with Daisuke Nagata on the day the company announced its closure, and has still not returned. The police last week charged him with suspected business embezzlement, fraud and other crimes. The wanted man, Keiji Fukuhara, will later seek help from Interpol and expand the wanted order to many countries around the world.
As of the day before yesterday, the Japanese police had received requests for help from 62 people, involving as many as 140 watches and a total amount of 240 million yen (HK$12.5 million).
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