By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-07 10:38:12 | Updated at 2024-10-07 14:29:11
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A Chinese national has been arrested in Japan for allegedly molesting a woman in June under the pretence of brushing off an insect crawling on her body.
The man allegedly groped the breasts of a woman in her 20s on a shopping street in the Asakusa area of Tokyo late at night on June 9, Japanese media outlets reported on Saturday.
The man reportedly told the victim there was an insect on her back and pretended to sweep it off, before proceeding to touch the front of her body.
The suspect, 33, shared the same Chinese name, age and tactics as Cheung Wai-hung, a Hong Kong man who was jailed for 32 months in 2021 for groping seven women, but it has not been confirmed if they are the same person.
Japanese police said he returned to China the day after the incident in June. But they recently learned the man would be on a flight from Hong Kong to Fukuoka on Friday and arrested him at the airport upon his arrival.
The man denied the accusations, saying he “did not remember” any such incident, according to local authorities.
