TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a member of a legal syndicate over the alleged blackmailing of a person in Shinjuku Ward earlier this yr, experiences the Sankei Shimbun (June 30).
At round 2:00 p.m. on March 29, Shinji Ijima, a 33-year-old member of the Sumiyoshi-kai‘s Kohei-Ikka gang, allegedly demanding money from a man, aged in his 50s, at a cafe in Shinjuku Ward
“You can report me to the police, but I don’t suppose something will occur after that,” he reportedly threatened. “Prepare one million yen as an apology.” The suspect then collected 500,000 yen in money from the sufferer on a road within the Kabukicho red-light district
Upon his arrest on suspicion of extortion, Ijima denied the allegations. He informed the Shinjuku Police Station, I borrowed, “I borrowed the money with [the victim’s] consent.”
According to the police station, the sufferer had been soliciting clients on the streets of Kabukicho till a few yr in the past. Police imagine that he had been in a dispute with Ijima, who had been stealing his clients.
On the day of the incident, the sufferer telephoned the Shinjuku Police Station. “I’ve been called out by a gang member I know.” He then lodged a criticism.