HOKKAIDO — Police right here have arrested a 48-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of extortion after he allegedly threatened a pedestrian and demanded money in an underground shopping center in Sapporo City, native media stories.
Makoto Takahashi, of no mounted handle, is accused of extorting roughly 15,000 yen from an unacquainted man in his 30s in Chuo Ward on the night of April 26.
At round 7:20 p.m., Takahashi allegedly picked a combat with the sufferer as they walked by an underground mall, falsely claiming the person had ran into him.
Takahashi then escalated the scenario by threatening the sufferer’s livelihood, telling him, “I’m with anti-social forces [yakuza]. Do you care what happens to your family and your company?”
Takahashi turned himself in at an area police station two days later. During questioning, he admitted to the allegations, reportedly telling investigators, “I did it because I was struggling to make a living.”
Authorities are presently investigating Takahashi’s potential involvement in a string of comparable extortion circumstances just lately reported within the surrounding space.