Three men and women have been arrested for the alleged fraudulent sale of a 300 square meter block of land in Tokyo’s upscale Minamiazabu neighbourhood.

According to the police department, the suspects forged the identity of the landowner and collected a 240 million Yen (approx. 2.15 million USD) payment from a buyer in early 2014. Depending on the location, a block of land of that size in Minamiazabu could have had a potential market value of 350 million Yen and upwards, and certainly a higher value today.

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