Fukuoka Prefectural Police investigators search the office of Lim's company inIizuka on Oct. 18. (Mainichi)
FUKUOKA -- The president of an information technology (IT)-related company and three others were arrested on Oct. 18 for helping three Cambodian men come to Japan under the guise of IT engineers and illegally work at a supermarket, police said.
Arrested for violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law were Lim Wee Yee, 39, president of the IT company in Iizuka who is a Malaysian national; Takashi Miyazaki, 40, president of the Kurume Chimakiya supermarket chain; his younger brother and board member Yoji Miyazaki, 36; and Masaru Sakai, 30, the operator of another supermarket.
The elder Miyazaki has admitted to the allegations while the three others have denied any wrongdoing, according to investigators.
The Fukuoka Regional Immigration Bureau is considering deporting the three Cambodian men.
The four suspects conspired to help the three Cambodian men aged 24 to 27 come to Japan in early December last year on special work visas by disguising them as IT engineers at Lim's company, and illegally work at Kurume Chimakiya supermarket, prefectural police allege.
The bearers of special work visas for IT engineers can stay and work in Japan for up to five years while those holding ordinary work visas can work here for only three years.
When they were secondary school students, the three Cambodian men got acquainted with Sakai, who was teaching Japanese in Cambodia as a volunteer, sources involved in the investigation said.
In summer last year, shortly before they graduated from university, Sakai approached them again and solicited them to work at a supermarket in Japan, according to the sources.
Fukuoka Prefectural Police investigators suspect that Sakai mediated between Lim and the elder Miyazaki.
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