TOKYO (TR) – A courtroom right here on Monday sentenced the previous chief of the so-called “Luffy” fraud ring to life imprisonment in reference to a collection of robberies that began 4 years in the past, studies the Asahi Shimbun (Feb. 15).
At the Tokyo District Court, Toshiya Fujita, 41, was convicted on a variety of expenses together with theft leading to loss of life.
Between October 2022 and January 2023, Fujita participated in seven theft instances in Tokyo and three different prefectures. In one case, a 90-year-old girl was killed in Komae City, Tokyo
The Luffy group is called after the favored manga for boys. It focuses on tokushu sagi, which is a sort of fraud carried out on the phone by a caller impersonating an authority determine or a sufferer’s relative.
In handing down the ruling, presiding choose Sakon Togari described the collection of robberies as “a pioneering new type of crime: organized, wide-area serial robberies orchestrated remotely with complete anonymity.”
Prosecutors had sought life imprisonment, whereas the protection sought a fixed-term sentence, arguing that the defendant “only assisted at the expense of other group leaders” and thus “merely constituted an accessory.”
However, this assertion was rejected. Togari famous that Fujita “played an important role by issuing detailed and accurate instructions to the perpetrators, encouraging and praising them, and leading them to carry out the crimes, even though he did not know them.”
The courtroom then sentenced Fujita to life imprisonment, which was the request of the prosecution. Meanwhile, the protection had sought a hard and fast time period.
“Without any sense of reality”
Fujita instructed perpetrators to hold out the crimes from the Philippines.
Togari added, “He gave instructions to carry out robberies without getting his hands dirty from overseas, where the risk of arrest was low, and continued to commit crimes without any sense of reality or resistance.”
Togari additionally acknowledged, “His obsession with obtaining money and valuables led him to disregard human life and escalate his crimes, so severe criticism is appropriate.”
Fujita listened to the decision in silence.
There are two different defendants, together with Kiyoto Imamura. However, their trial dates haven’t been set.