IBARAKI (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested six males, together with a member of a felony syndicate, following the invention of the corpse of a seventh man within the city of Sakai, stories the Asahi Shimbun (Oct. 24).
Around June 15, Ryo Usui, a 38-year-old senior member of the Yamaguchi-gumi, and his 5 accomplices allegedly deserted the physique of Atsushi Matsunaga, 48, at a depth of two meters in a patch of grass.
According to police, Usui and the opposite suspects kidnapped Matsunaga in a automobile, assaulted and injured him, and transported and deserted his physique 4 days later.
Police didn’t reveal whether or not the suspects admit to the allegations.
The outcomes of an post-mortem didn’t reveal the reason for loss of life, police mentioned.
Matsunaga lived in Tokyo. On October 14, a crew of roughly 50 officers and found his almost bare physique after clearing the grass across the web site with heavy equipment. It took about 5 hours to seek out the physique.
The incident got here to mild by way of the evaluation of a smartphone seized throughout an investigation into one other case involving Usui and others.
Police are investigating the chance that the suspects dedicated the crime after getting right into a dispute with Matsunaga.