This incident occurred at the end of January, when an Osaka-based company that operated a service called “Toke Match” that mediates “sharing” between owners of luxury watches and those who wish to borrow and use them suddenly announced their dissolution. A large number of watches that had been entrusted to them have not been returned.
The Metropolitan Police Department has obtained an arrest warrant for Takayoshi Fukuhara (42), who was the representative of a company, on suspicion of embezzlement in the course of business, alleging that he sold a luxury Rolex watch to an antique dealer without the owner’s permission. I am.
Through previous interviews, we have learned that some of the watches left by their owners were put up for internet auctions or sold on flea market apps, but this happened in January, just before the company announced its dissolution. Through interviews with investigators, it has been newly learned that watches entrusted to the company were sold one after another to antique dealers in multiple prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka.
It is known that former CEO Fukuhara left the country for Dubai in the Middle East on January 31st, the same day the company announced its dissolution. We suspect that the sale of the company was planned in a planned manner, and we are investigating the details of the business.