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November 06, 2009
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| Osamu Dokashi, a 35-year-old Japanese who was expelled from Korea in July after being arrested on charges of uploading a post to a Japanese airline Web site saying a plane bound for Narita, Japan, from Korea would be hijacked, was arrested again Tuesday in Japan. Since Aug. 16, a series of online posts and phone calls threatening to blow up or hijack a Japanese airplane were reported in Japan. All the cases targeted Japanese planes taking off from Korea. The suspect allegedly made 12 such threats by the end of October. Officials from the National Intelligence Service as well as police and bomb squads in Korea have to be mobilized at airports to check passengers whenever threats are reported. Korean and Japanese police obtained intelligence that the threats emanated from Dokashi, and they tracked him down through a phone number and IP address. Korean investigators handed over their information to their Japanese counterparts. A Korean inspector was dispatched to Japan to assist. Japanese officers said that they have solid evidence even though the suspect denies wrongdoing. Korean police arrested Dokashi on July 16. He was deported the next day. On July 2, Dokashi allegedly uploaded a threatening online posting while working at a travel agency in Korea as a part-time job. Japanese investigators found that the IP address was located in Seoul. Japanese authorities asked Korean police to help track down the suspect. Korean officers discovered that the suspect posted a threatening note at an Internet cafe located in Dongdaemun, Seoul. By Kang In-sik, Lee Min-yong [smartpower@joongang.co.kr] |
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