TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a member of a yakuza legal syndicate and two accomplices for allegedly confining, assaulting and robbing a person in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture over a six-day interval final yr, reviews the Asahi Shimbun (July 11).
On June 21 final yr, Ryo Usui, a 38-year-old senior member of the Ochiai Kanamachi Rengo, Katsumata Sadari, 29, and plumber Shunta Takei, 26, labored collectively to kidnap the person, aged 24 on the time, right into a automotive on a avenue close to a park in Yokohama, handcuff him and imprison him in a home in the identical metropolis.
Over the subsequent six days, the trio allegedly assaulted him by stabbing him with a drill and different implements, inflicting unspecified accidents. They additionally pressured him handy over 700,000 yen price of necklaces and three.8 million yen in money.
According to police, the person suffered accidents that took two months to heal.
Confinement for “six days” resulting from monetary troubles
Ochiai Kanamachi Rengo is an affiliate gang of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest legal syndicate in Japan. According to a police supply, the sufferer is a member of a rival gang. It is believed that there was some sort of monetary bother between the three suspects and the person.
Usui and his accomplices threatened the person over the six days. “Do you know why this happened? Did you steal 5 million yen? Give me some money in,” one of many suspects mentioned. “Contact someone and transfer the money. We’ll set up the account, so just transfer the money.”
The suspects threatened the person via an acquaintance, demanding {that a} switch of 10 million yen in money to their financial institution.
The acquaintance later reported the incident to police, which resulted within the man being let out on June 27.
24-second video posted on social media
Police later discovered {that a} video apparently shot through the six-day assault was posted on X.
In the 24-second clip, a person is proven sitting on the bottom the ground whereas bare. He has handcuffs on his wrists.
Lined up in entrance of the person are instruments, together with chisels and drills, batons and stun weapons. It is believed that the suspects used these implements to assault the person.
Another video posted on social media exhibits the person bleeding from his head. It is believed to have been taken instantly after an assault.
The investigation is ongoing. Police are investigating why the movies had been taken and posted on social media and whether or not the three suspects had been assisted by others.