Japanese police arrested Taiwan national Yen-Tsen Yeh as an alleged cash mule for an international fraud ring that used an AI-generated deepfake video of entrepreneur Takafumi Horie to convince an elderly Tokyo resident, contacted via the LINE messaging app, to invest in a fake scheme. The victim handed over cash in person on seven separate occasions, resulting in total losses of roughly ¥100 million (approximately USD $667,000 at an approximate conversion); Yeh personally received ¥5 million of the proceeds. The arrest was reported June 26, 2026, with the wider network still under investigation.