Dry cleaning factories paid 70 million yen in brokerage fee to get foreign workers on agricultural residence status to work at cleaning factories that is short of workers

On the 11th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced that it had arrested four suspects, including the president (54) of the temporary staffing agency Scrum Human Power (Fuefuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture) and the director (47) of the cleaning company Kobayashi Linen Service (Fuefuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture), on suspicion of violating the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (aiding and abetting illegal employment) for employing foreigners with agricultural residence status in a dry cleaning factory, and that it had referred the documents for the two companies as corporations to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on the same charges.

According to the announcement, the four are suspected of conspiring to dispatch three Indonesian men in their teens and twenties who had agricultural residence status from Scrum to Kobayashi Linen's cleaning factory between October last year and June this year, and forcing them to work outside their permitted status.