Japanese fugitive Mitsuhiro Taniguchi is deported following his arrest in Indonesia earlier this month for fraud over coronavirus-related subsidies in Japan, at the Directorate General of Immigration building in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 22, 2022. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A Japanese fugitive accused of swindling about $7 million from a pandemic subsidy programme was deported from Indonesia on Wednesday, an immigration official said.
Mitsuhiro Taniguchi, who was arrested by Indonesian police on the island of Sumatra earlier this month, boarded a Narita-bound flight from Jakarta, Indonesian immigration official Douglas Simamore said in a statement.
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