Home>News Center>World
         
 

Japan extradites two in alleged 9/11 fraud
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-26 09:21

Two Japanese citizens were extradited to the United States on Tuesday to face charges they swindled thousands of dollars from U.S. aid organizations by falsely claiming they were victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, officials said.

Justice Minister Chieko Nono earlier this month approved the handover of the two, who had been detained by Japanese prosecutors at Washington's request, a ministry official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

It was not immediately clear what U.S. city they were extradited to on Tuesday. The man and woman, whose names were not released, are to face trial in the United States, where they have been charged with fraud.

They allegedly received compensation from U.S. aid organizations after falsely claiming they were victims of the 2001 attacks in New York.

The woman received $12,750 from the U.S. Red Cross and another aid organization, while the man received about $2,500 from the organization.

The two are also suspected of together applying for a $1 million loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration, falsely claiming that their rented office near the World Trade Center towers was damaged in the attacks. Their application was denied.

Both have denied the accusations. One of the two was reportedly a volunteer interpreter in New York following the attacks.



Hurricane Wilma batters Florida
All 117 feared dead in Nigerian plane crash
Quake relief inadequate, UN says
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

Anniversary of Taiwan's recovery celebrated

 

   
 

Bird flu outbreak in Anhui reined in

 

   
 

Singapore PM: China's growth 'good for Asia'

 

   
 

US to transfer nuclear reactor tech to China

 

   
 

Koizumi still hopes for summit with China

 

   
 

Rails seizure shakes a nation's conscience

 

   
  Iraqi death toll much higher than US
   
  Draft Constitution adopted by Iraqi voters
   
  Journalists' hotel in Baghdad attacked
   
  Wilma leaves 6M without power in Florida
   
  Bernanke to succeed Greenspan as US Fed chief
   
  Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies at 92
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Advertisement