YOKOHAMA, Jan. 25 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Police arrested two South Korean women Monday on suspicion of illegally entering Japan by evading the biometric identification system by using tapes containing other peoples' fingerprints.
The women aged 32 and 31 allegedly slipped through the immigration process at Tokyo's Haneda airport on different occasions, in May and October 2008, police said. It is the first case of arrests involving illegal entrants who used "fingerprint tapes," according to the Immigration Bureau of Japan.
The cases came to light after both women received deportation orders in January 2008 for overstaying their visas while working as nightclub hostesses in Kanagawa Prefecture, and had their fingerprints taken by the immigration bureau.
They then told the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau last December that they bought the tapes from a broker in South Korea and turned themselves in to the authorities because they wanted to go back to their country, the Kanagawa police said.
Their arrests come at a time when the immigration bureau is planning to put in place in March new biometric ID devices capable of detecting authentic fingerprints even if such tapes are used.
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