ガーシー容疑者に旅券返納命令　失効すれば強制退去も―動画投稿巡る脅迫事件

　動画投稿サイトで著名人らを繰り返し脅迫したなどとして警視庁が前参院議員のガーシー（本名・東谷義和）容疑者（５１）の逮捕状を取った事件で、外務省は２３日、海外に滞在中の同容疑者に旅券返納命令を出した。
　４月１３日までの返納を求めており、応じなければ旅券は失効する。事実上の不法滞在状態となり、強制退去処分の対象となる可能性がある。（2023/03/23-16:04）

Japan's Foreign Ministry on Thursday ordered former lawmaker GaaSyy, who is currently staying overseas, to surrender his passport, after an arrest warrant was issued for him last week on suspicion of repeatedly intimidating celebrities on YouTube.
   The ministry ordered GaaSyy, 51, whose real name is Yoshikazu Higashitani, to return his passport by April 13. If he refuses to do so, the passport will become invalid, a situation that may make him subject to deportation for illegal stay.
   Based in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, GaaSyy has been releasing YouTube videos exposing celebrity scandals.
   GaaSyy won a parliamentary seat for the first time in the July 2022 election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament. But he was expelled as a lawmaker on March 15 for remaining absent from the Diet.
   On March 16, Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department obtained an arrest warrant for GaaSyy for allegedly intimidating three well-known people and their relatives in videos he posted.