TOKYO (TR) – Last week, Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested the boss of scouting group Natural, who had been searched for paying safety cash to organized crime within the capital.
Investigators have now revealed {that a} search of the hideout of Hiroaki Obata, 40, in Kagoshima Prefecture resulted within the discovery of a considerable amount of money that’s believed to have been utilized in his flight from seize, reviews the Yomiuri Shimbun (Jan. 30).
On January 30, Tokyo police carried out a search of his resort room in Amami City, Kagoshima and located 1.7 million yen in money in a secure.
The money was within the type of a wad of payments stuffed in a pockets. In addition to clothes, a receipt for a pair of glasses price roughly 22,000 yen bought in the identical metropolis was additionally seized.
Obata had requested the resort to not permit staff to enter his room or knock on the door. Police imagine that Obata was utilizing the resort as a base to cover out and subject directions to executives.
The apprehension adopted the issuing of an arrest warrant linked to the group final week. The warrant additionally listed Obata as wished.
According to police, Natural is suspected of paying safety cash to an organized crime group, which is a violation of Tokyo Metropolitan Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinance.
The allegations within the arrest warrant are based mostly on one such incident. On July 24, 2023, Obata and his associates are suspected of conspiring to pay 600,000 yen in money to a 39-year-old senior member of a Yamaguchi-gumi affiliate as safety cash to safe approval for scouting actions in Udagawacho, Shibuya Ward.
According to police, greater than 30 ideas had been acquired after the issuing of the arrest warrant on January 21. Investigators had been dispatched to certainly one of these areas in Amami on January 23. Three days later, the suspect was discovered alone and in possession of just about no belongings.
Obata started staying at a resort below a false title on December 21. He had a reservation till February 3.