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Yakuza boss charged with ordering hit on manager of car dealership who was slashed with Japanese sword
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2018-10-20T08:45:06.000Z
2018-10-20T08:45:06.000Z
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<p>Using a katana sword to whack a debtor? That kind of stuff only happens when the Japanese Mafia is involved. Yakuza boss Kim Yeong-cheol (photo above) was arrested last week by police and charged with ordering just such an attack on a used-car dealership manager in November of 2017. Kim is a leader of the Inagawa-kai, one of <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-overview" target="_blank">Japan’s most powerful crime groups</a>.</p>
<p>His indictment follows the previous arrest of two of his underlings in June. Security camera footage caught three men wearing ski masks enter the manager’s office late in the afternoon on November 9 of last year. They sprayed the man’s face with tear gas before one of them pulled out a Japanese sword and slashed the manager’s stomach, the <a href="https://www.tokyoreporter.com" target="_blank">Tokyo Reporter</a> states.</p>
<p>With the man wounded and bleeding, the mobsters left with 500,000 yen and two cell phones. The manager was later transported to the hospital and is expected to recover. 71-year-old Kim denies any involvement in the attack, telling police: “I have absolutely no connection [to the matter].”</p>
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Japan’s banks can reject loans to Yakuza gangsters
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2018-01-05T10:32:47.000Z
2018-01-05T10:32:47.000Z
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<div><p><a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/japan-s-banks-can-reject-loans-to-yakuza-gangsters" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9237011873,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="9237011873?profile=original" width="510" /></a>By David Amoruso</p>
<p>Yakuza mobsters looking for money need to find a loan shark with good rates, because Japanese banks will reject many of them when they apply for loans. As of yesterday, the Japanese Bankers Association stated that its branches will be able to screen individual loan seekers using the National Police Agency’s database of members of organized crime.</p>
<p>Organized crime in Japan is dominated by the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-overview" target="_blank">Yakuza</a>, the country’s homegrown <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Mafia" target="_blank">Mafia</a>, which is involved in all the mob-staples such as extortion, gambling, drug trafficking, prostitution, and, of course, loansharking.</p>
<p>In recent years, authorities have cracked down on Yakuza activities by introducing tougher laws and placing gangsters under increased police scrutiny. This has caused a major blow to the group’s influence and resulted in a <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/japan-s-yakuza-membership-continues-to-rapidly-decline" target="_blank">declining membership</a> and a split within its largest and most powerful clan, the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/yakuza-boss-yoshinori-watanabe" target="_blank">Yamaguchi-gumi</a>, which is now divided and involved in an internecine gang war.</p>
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<p>The added screening measures follow a huge 2013 banking scandal involving the Mizuho Bank, one of Japan’s biggest financial institutions, which was found to have made 230 transactions with individuals with connections to the <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=Yakuza" target="_blank">Yakuza</a>. The total amount of loans came down to 200 million yen.</p>
<p>With this new screening banks can connect to the police database through the government-affiliated Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan. If the person comes up in the database, the local police department will be asked to conduct further identification. If they confirm the person is an associate or member of the Yakuza, the bank can reject the loan.</p>
<p>That will leave these gangsters with no other option than to take to the streets and find a friend to offer them a loan. Such a loan, however, will be difficult to use to pay for a house. Of course, in money laundering 101 there are plenty of ways around such financial blockades. Just ask any CEO of a Fortune 500 company. </p>
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Violent New York Asian gang hit with racketeering charges
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2015-12-17T14:23:01.000Z
2015-12-17T14:23:01.000Z
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<p>Eight members and associates of the Zheng Organization were charged with crimes including racketeering, narcotics trafficking, extortion offenses, illegal gambling, and soliciting assaults on Tuesday. Qian “Cash” Zheng, the gang’s leader, faces a maximum sentence of 164 years in prison if convicted.</p>
<p>Zheng’s organization was based in and around the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn and the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, both known as local <a href="http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/triads-overview">Chinatowns</a>. Authorities allege that its members participated in a variety of crimes to enhance the gang’s influence and wealth.</p>
<p>According to the indictment, in August 2013, Qian Zheng hired two individuals to assault a man and a woman. He sought to have one of the victim’s leg broken and the other victim’s face scarred.</p>
<p>A few months later, in October 2013, gang members Billy Chen (42) and Jiayo Jiang (45) extorted a man. Later, Zheng joined in on the scheme and hired two individuals to carry out the extortion and instructed them to beat the man and fire shots into his restaurant so that he would pay an alleged debt.</p>
<p>A year later, Zheng and fellow gang member Guifu Gao (35) solicited the assault of another man. Gao made clear that this one needed to be crippled and that he should be beaten until he was half dead. Zheng similarly instructed those hired to carry out the beating to beat the man severely.</p>
<p>The violent collections continued as, on May 28, 2015, Zheng sent his underlings, including Xin Lin, Kai Huan Huang, and Xue Jiang Gao, to collect money from a man at his gambling parlor. When he insisted that he did not owe any money, Lin, Huang, and Jiang Gao beat him with their fists and wooden stools, breaking a bone in the man’s hand.</p>
<p>44-year-old crime boss Zheng and his cronies also profited by narcotics trafficking and illegal gambling. All face decades behind bars if found guilty.</p>
<p> “For years, Zheng and his associates committed violent acts to make money, protect their territory, and as retribution for perceived slights. Violent gangs are a blight on our neighborhoods, and we will do all in our power to prevent them from casting a shadow of violence over our streets,” stated United States Attorney Robert L. Capers.</p>
<p>“The Zheng Organization used violence and an array of criminal activities to enhance their power and protect their territory. It’s gang related activity like this that infects our communities with an illness that kills our neighborhoods’ safety and growth. However, there is an antidote to this that is made of law enforcement working at both the federal and local level to get gangs like this off the street,” said Assistant Director-in-Charge, Diego Rodriguez.</p>
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