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Gang nets US$3.4 million in Fukuoka daylight robbery

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Police in southern Japan are ­seeking a gang of three men who robbed a businessman of 364 million yen (HK$26 million) , the fourth-largest heist in post-war Japan….
Police in southern Japan are ­seeking a gang of three men who robbed a businessman of 364 million yen (HK$26 million) , the fourth-largest heist in post-war Japan. And experts believe the attack – carried out in broad daylight in a car park in the Tenjin district of Fukuoka City – may have been carried out by members of a local underworld group. If that is the case, it would mark a significant change in tactics of the region’s yakuza gangs. The attack took place shortly after midday last Tuesday when the 29-year-old businessman, who works for a gold trading company in Tokyo, emerged from a bank with money he had just withdrawn in a black suitcase. A frequent visitor to the city for business, the man was attacked in a car park by two men who sprayed what may have been tear gas in his face. The two men then fled in a white Honda minivan driven by a third suspect, Jiji Press reported. “There have been a series of robberies in Fukuoka over the last few years that have been attributed to yakuza gangs, ” said Jake Adelstein, author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan and an expert on Japan’s underworld groups.

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