Ex-gang chief, 6 others arrested over business startup subsidy scam
News On Japan via Mainichi -- Oct 10
A former leader of a crime syndicate and six others were arrested on Oct. 10 on suspicion of defrauding a government-funded organization of about 4.3 million yen in 2007, which police suspect was funneled to the underworld.
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Takefumi Ozuka, a 52-year-old former head of a crime syndicate linked to the Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest Japanese yakuza group, a woman director of the non-profit organization Life Information Center, and five others for allegedly defrauding the government-funded Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers (JEED) of about 4.3 million yen in February 2007.
多重債務者の救済などを目的に設立されたNPO団体の理事の女らが、暴力団の元組員らとともに独立行政法人から助成金約430万円をだまし取ったとして逮捕されました。
Source: Mainichi
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