The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's International Crime Countermeasures Division said Vegemil, a vegetable processing and sales company in Fukaya, Saitama, was led by CEO Ishii Makoto and another suspect who allegedly allowed Indian men with a Tech/Humanities/International Services visa to perform non-visa vegetable processing work at night in a low-temperature plant. The other suspect is Bangladeshi HR manager Chowdri Hamid Hossein. The three Indian men reportedly paid brokers 600,000–800,000 rupees to come to Japan and submitted false documents to obtain the Tech-international visa; after arriving, they were placed at Vegemil through a friend's introduction. Ishii said he 'knew nothing at all,' while Chowdri said he 'knew it was wrong but hired foreigners for minimum wage to grow the company.'