Japanese woman arrested after failing to return expensive camera she rented in Korea and heading to airport

A Japanese woman was arrested by police after renting camera equipment worth tens of millions of won (approximately hundreds of millions of yen) from a camera rental store in South Korea using her lost passport as collateral, and then failing to return the equipment.
The Incheon National Police Agency's Airport Police Unit announced on the 18th that it had arrested a Japanese woman in her 30s on suspicion of fraud.
On the 9th of this month, suspect A rented a camera from a camera rental store in Seoul and did not return it.
On the 11th of this month, suspect A attempted to depart for Japan with expensive camera equipment he had rented from a camera rental store in Seoul.
Suspect A was arrested at the airport after being reported by the owner of a camera rental store, who thought it was strange that a GPS (Global Positioning System) signal installed on a camera was detected at the airport.
As a result of the investigation, it was revealed that the suspect, A, had rented cameras and lenses worth a total of 40.8 million won (approximately 4.57 million yen) from a camera rental store in Korea three times from January of this year until recently.
It was discovered that the camera he had rented twice was disposed of in Japan. Suspect A learned that a passport was required during the rental process and reported the loss of his passport in advance and obtained a new one.
When he borrowed the camera, he used his old passport, which had been processed as lost, as collateral. A police official said, "As rental of expensive electronic products is very popular,
"We ask that you be vigilant to prevent similar incidents from occurring."