Overview
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police sent the case to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of non-consensual indecent assault against a female acquaintance.
- The National Police Agency imposed a disciplinary pay reduction on the inspector the same day, and he resigned.
- The alleged conduct occurred last summer while he led the MPD Cybercrime Countermeasures Division, reportedly at a Tokyo restaurant and on a street.
- The inspector has acknowledged the allegations and expressed apology and remorse during internal questioning.
- He was most recently assigned to the NPA Foreign Affairs Division and has been identified in some reports as Keisuke Sakanoue, 36, with prosecutors now weighing whether to file charges.