FUKUOKA (TR) – Fukuoka Prefectural Police are confirming data concerning the potential retirement of Satoru Nomura, the de facto high boss of the Kudo-kai legal syndicate, reviews the Asahi Shimbun (Mar. 25).
Sources within the legal underworld this month instructed police that the de facto chief and president of the Kudo-kai, 79-year-old Nomura, had “retired.”
There is a risk that the number-two man, Fumio Tanoue, 69, will succeed him, however the police are nonetheless gathering data.
“Operation Summit”
Nomura is the fourth chairman of the Kudo-kai, which relies in Kitakyushu City. Fifteen years in the past, he relinquished the chairmanship to Tanoue. However, he’s thought of to have continued to reign because the de facto chief even after stepping down.
Police arrested Nomura and Tanoue individually as a part of “Operation Summit” in September 2014.
The two males have been indicted on homicide fees for his or her involvement in a complete of 4 incidents: the 1998 taking pictures demise of a former fisheries cooperative chairman, the 2012 taking pictures of a former prefectural police inspector, the 2013 stabbing of a nurse and the 2014 stabbing of a dentist.
In 2021, the Fukuoka District Court sentenced Nomura to demise, however the Fukuoka High Court overturned the first-instance ruling, discovering him not responsible of 1 homicide. He was discovered responsible of the remaining murders and sentenced to life imprisonment. The prosecution has appealed to the Supreme Court.
Tagami acquired a life-imprisonment sentence in each the primary and second trials, and has appealed, so his sentence isn’t but closing.
“Specific Dangerous Yakuza Group”
The Kudo-kai has repeatedly carried out assaults in opposition to residents and companies.
In 2012, it was designated as the one “Specific Dangerous Designated Yakuza Group” in Japan.
According to investigators, gang members visited Nomura on the detention heart the place he was being held day-after-day, suggesting that he continued to exert affect over the Kudo-kai much more than 11 years after his arrest.