71-Year-Old Man Arrested for Making 24, 000 Complaint Calls

Police in Japan have arrested a 71 year old man who is also a pensioner for making at least 24, 000 calls to file a complaint to a company he claimed it violated his contract, police and local media confirmed.

The 71-year-old, Akitosh Okamoto was taken into custody by Tokyo police after he made hundreds of toll-free calls over eight days to the customer service section of major telephone operator KDDI.

But this could be the tip of the iceberg, with media outlets reporting that he made thousands more calls from public pay phones to voice his displeasure with the company and insult customer service staff.

“He demanded that KDDI staff come to him to apologise for violating his contract. He also repeatedly hung up his calls immediately after placing them,” a police spokesman said.

He has been arrested on suspicion of “fraudulent obstruction of business”, the spokesman added.

Japan is seeing an increasing number of social problems caused by the nation’s rapidly ageing population.