VietNamNet Bridge - Japanese police say that an underground money transfer network from Japan to Vietnam may have existed for the past three years, with a scale of nearly $5 million.

On April 22, Japanese police issued an arrest notice a Vietnamese man, whose name is Tran Xuan Chinh, 27 years old, for the crime of illegal money transfers.

According to the Asahi Shimbun, Chinh was prosecuted on April 18. Japanese police are also investigating some other people in this ring.

According to the police allegations, from August to November of last year, Tran Xuan Chinh transferred money from Japan to Vietnam five times, at the request of four other Vietnamese in Fukuoka, with a total amount of JPY1.06 million ($5,000), Sankei newspaper wrote.

The police have suspected the existence of an illegal money transfer ring related to many Vietnamese people in Japan.

According to the police, from June 2011 to February 2014, this ring may have transferred money for around 600 Vietnamese customers in 38 provinces in Japan, with a total amount of about JPY500 million, equivalent to $5 million.

VNE