盗まれた純金茶わん発見　転売先の買い取り店で―警視庁

　日本橋高島屋（東京都中央区）の「大黄金展」の会場から純金製の抹茶茶わん（販売価格１０４０万６０００円）が盗まれた事件で、警視庁捜査３課は１５日、転売先の台東区内の古物買い取り店で茶わんを発見したと発表した。目立った傷などはないという。
　同日午前に捜査員が押収し、大黄金展の主催会社社長が確認した。作者の刻印や重さが盗まれたものと一致した。
　事件を巡っては、職業不詳堀江大容疑者（３２）＝江東区塩浜＝が窃盗容疑で逮捕されている。
　同課によると、堀江容疑者は１１日午前１１時４０分ごろに茶わんを盗み、午後１時半ごろに江東区内の買い取り店でマイナンバーカードを示し、約１８０万円で売却した。茶わんは同日中に台東区内の店に転売されていた。（2024/04/15-18:14）

A pure gold tea bowl that was stolen last week while being showcased in an event at a department store in Tokyo has been found at an antique shop in the Japanese capital, police said.
   There is no noticeable damage to the 24-karat golden bowl, which is for use for matcha green tea and was priced at 10,406,000 yen at the exhibition event, the third investigation division of the Criminal Investigation Bureau at Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.
   MPD investigators on Monday morning confiscated the tea bowl from the shop in Tokyo's Taito Ward, to which it had been resold. The president of the company that organized the exhibition identified it. The creator's engraving on the seized item and its weight matched those of the tea bowl stolen from the event venue, according to investigators.
   In the high-profile incident, a 32-year-old man, a resident of Tokyo's Koto Ward, was arrested by the MPD on Saturday for alleged theft.
   According to the third investigation division, the man, Masaru Horie, stole the pure gold tea bowl during the exhibition at major Japanese department store operator Takashimaya Co.'s Nihonbashi outlet in Tokyo's Chuo Ward around 11:40 a.m. Thursday.