Tokyo police have arrested four people, including a former director of human resources consulting firm President, for allegedly luring target audiences into multilevel marketing via dating apps last year, despite orders to suspend all network marketing-related businesses.
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested the following people for alleged violations of the law regulating certain commercial transactions: Arata Sakamoto, the 30-year-old former president, Kazuto Omori, 26, president of management consulting company Monolith, Hiro Okudera, 28, president of consulting company Pioneer, and Honami Morita, 28, president of consulting company More.
They are suspected of having lured several people, including a 20-year-old Tokyo resident, into multi-level marketing between April and June last year. However, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has banned Sakamoto, Omori and Okudera from doing business in network marketing between March 2023 and December of the same year after it was discovered that they had engaged in improper recruitment practices.
