中国人窃盗団「ピンクパンダ」か　真珠盗んだ疑い、女２人逮捕―警視庁

　東京ビッグサイト（東京都江東区）で開かれた宝飾展で真珠のペンダントを盗んだとして、警視庁捜査３課は２８日までに、窃盗容疑で、中国籍で住所職業不詳の義小鳳容疑者（３７）ら女２人を逮捕した。いずれも容疑を否認しているという。
　２人は、中国・湖南省出身者らで構成され、世界各地の宝飾展などで盗みを繰り返す「ピンクパンダ」と呼ばれる国際窃盗団のメンバーとみられる。
　逮捕容疑は１月１７日午後０時半ごろ、東京ビッグサイトで開催された国際宝飾展で、大阪市の卸業者が展示販売していた真珠のペンダント６本（販売価格計１８６万５０００円）を盗んだ疑い。（2024/08/28-11:50）

Tokyo police have arrested on suspicion of jewelry theft two women who are believed to be members of a worldwide gang known as "Pink Panda" specializing in stealing jewelry from exhibitions, it was learned Wednesday.
   Yi Xiaofeng, a 37-year-old Chinese national, and another woman are alleged to have stolen six pearl pendants valued at a total of 1,865,000 yen at an international jewelry exhibition at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center in the Japanese capital's Koto Ward at around 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 17. They are both denying the charges.
   The gang's members mostly come from China's Hunan Province.
   According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the suspects entered Japan on Jan. 16 on short stay visas. They left the country at around 2 a.m. on Jan. 18.
   The police identified the two suspects using evidence such as video footage before acquiring their arrest warrants. The two were apprehended when they returned to Japan on Tuesday, apparently in time for a three-day jewelry event that started in Tokyo on Wednesday.