Suspect in subsidy fraud case arrested upon transfer from Indonesia

A 47-year-old man suspected of fraudulently receiving around 1 billion yen ($7.4 million) in government COVID-19 subsidies was arrested Wednesday after he was sent back to Japan from Indonesia, an investigative source said.Indonesian immigration authorities nabbed Mitsuhiro Taniguchi earlier this month on suspicion of overstaying his visa. He had left for Indonesia in October 2020, and Japanese police put him on a wanted list.The suspect is believed to have led a group whose members included his former wife and eldest son. They are suspected of submitting about 1,780 false subsidy applicati…READ FULL ARTICLE