TOKYO — Tokyo Metropolitan Police performed raids on a number of yakuza workplaces on Thursday in reference to a brazen avenue theft in Taito Ward earlier this 12 months that netted perpetrators over 400 million yen, studies Fuji News Network (Apr. 2).
The searches focused three places, together with the headquarters of the Sumiyoshi-kai in Minato Ward and an workplace of the Kyokuto-kai syndicate, primarily based in Shinjuku Ward’s Kabukicho nightlife district.
The raids observe the latest arrests of Jinryu Kano, a 21-year-old government of the Yamaguchi-gumi prison syndicate, and 6 different suspects over their alleged involvement within the incident.
On the evening of January 29, the group allegedly ambushed a person on a avenue within the Ueno space of Taito and blinding him with pepper spray earlier than making off with 423 million yen in money.
According to investigators, two of the opposite six suspects are identified members of the Sumiyoshi-kai and Kyokuto-kai crime syndicates.
Police suspect the rival organizations fashioned an underworld alliance, becoming a member of forces particularly to hold out the extremely profitable theft.
Authorities at the moment are monitoring the cash path, investigating the sturdy chance that the stolen 423 million yen was funneled again into the syndicates to fund organized crime operations.