Former SKE48 member Yamada Juna has been convicted for 1 year and 6 months (receiving a suspended sentence for four years) for fraudulently cheating individuals under the pretense of investment guidance. In other words, she is guilty but because she has a suspended sentence for four years, as long as she doesn’t get into any trouble within four years, she literally is free. If she does get into trouble again within four years, she will have to serve prison time.
The judge felt Yamada was subordinate and shown sincere remorse and had apologized for her actions.
Comments on SNS are as follows:
If you have returned all the money to the victim, you can have a suspended sentence, but if you do not return it, you will be sentenced to imprisonment, otherwise the same crime will occur in the future. The problem is that the punishment is too sweet and not punishable.
Is the suspended sentence a practical acquittal? It’s a scam that you can’t even get a prison sentence.
Because she is already an adult, she should be able to judge right from wrong. Work normally and live.
I always think that the rate will not decrease because of the suspended sentence.
I think that the entertainment agency should manage and educate the behavior so that this kind of thing does not happen. There are many general companies that educate compliance and etiquette.
The Aichi Prefectural Police arrested numerous individuals for suspected fraud and violation of the Specified Commercial Transactions Law, deceiving those by taking their money by promising financial products “Binary Options” and invest in anticipation of exchange rate fluctuations.
Four men and women were arrested, which included unemployed former SKE48 member Yamada Juna (22). Yamada and the others have denied the charges and allegations of fraud. Yamada was accused of cheating 2.5 million yen in cash from three men from January-February, 2020.
On January 31, 2020, the four allegedly have pretended to have a way to make a large profit to a male office worker (23) at the time, saying that they would need a 500,000 yen which would be an “investment guidance fee”. The four ran a binary company “THE” and would act as if they were giving out facts and methods on how to make a lot of money.
From August 19, 2020 to March 20, 2021, the prefectural police suspect that the group may have taken 58 million yen from more than 100 people.