TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 32-year-old company employee on suspicion of acting as a “hit-and-run fraudster.”
In one case last year, he allegedly staged a collision with a cyclist to swindle an insurance company out of 750,000 yen, reports Fuji News Network (Nov. 11).
Yuki Adachi, a resident of Tokyo, is accused of orchestrating the incident in Kodaira City in September last year. According to police, Adachi was walking on a sidewalk when he intentionally threw himself into a moving bicycle, feigning an accident to claim insurance money for injuries he did not legitimately sustain.
Tokyo police launched an investigation after reviewing security camera footage, which reportedly captures Adachi deliberately moving toward the cyclist and colliding with them in an “unnatural” manner.
Despite the damning footage, Adachi has denied the allegations, telling investigators, “I did not commit insurance fraud.”
Police are currently investigating whether Adachi may have been involved in similar incidents in the past.
