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Police in Tokyo are looking for two men who forced their way into a home and stole 110 million in cash.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 1 a.m. Monday in the 3-story residence of a Chinese man in his 30s in Arakawa Ward, Fuji TV reported. Police said the victim claimed he operates a trading company.
Police said he told them that he had just returned home by car and was grabbed by the two suspects from behind and forced into the house. He said the intruders tied his hands and feet with adhesive tape. Later that morning, they ordered him at knifepoint to contact a male employee to prepare the money and leave it in a bag outside his front door at around noon.
The two men took the money and left. The the victim managed to remove the adhesive tape about 30 minutes later and called 110. Police said he suffered a bruise to his right arm and other injuries.
The man told police his attackers spoke Chinese.
© Japan Today
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Asiaman7
And that male employee didn’t immediately contact the police?
diagonalslip
why "claimed", I wonder....
RareReason
Not suspicious at all
Ramzel
This scenario needs some investigation. Dont know many companies that readily have access on short notice to $1M in cash…
Hervé L'Eisa
Trading "what"... Sounds like a triad hit.
purple_depressed_bacon
Clearly he obtained that money from less than legal means. I mean who keeps that much cold hard cash in their house? We have banks for a reason.
RINFO
"Trading "what"... Sounds like a triad hit."
IMO: if he moved into a new neighborhood and was not J/C perhaps the mammys and Vet minded would be putting it on the wire, fulfilled by overly prurient, peddle charioteers scoping hard, with shortly intolerant stones down low examining.
shogun36
adhesive tape?
was it the cheap brown daiso kind?
because those can rip apart by just looking at it.
ian
So the "victim" says he lost 110million.
Gaijinjland
If you're stupid enough to keep that much cash in your home, you deserve to get robbed.
Sal Affist
People overinflate losses from thefts so that they can hide some from taxes or even from their own business partners. Let's say the thieves only took 80 million yen - now, no one will be accounting for the 30 million yen difference, leading to either a tax reduction or a secret stash (or both.)