22-year-old man arrested over robbery-murder case in Yokohama

This must be one of the incidents mentioned in yesterday’s article about the thirty arrests for various robberies. Glad they caught this guy.

Apparently the organiziers first find "yamibaito" candidates via Facebook and X, and then ask them to switch to Telegram. Telegram is dogmatic about protecting privacy, but it seems to me that both Musk and Zuckerberg would be open to help in an obvious criminal investigation. Is that being done?

@Zaphod--why mention those two guys? The CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France two months ago and reportedly is helping authorities access lawbreakers who use his company platform.

A purported dogma can change on a dime when company management and survival are on shaky ground.

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@Zaphod--why mention those two guys? The CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France two months ago and reportedly is helping authorities access lawbreakers who use his company platform.

OK, if that is true, then it should be possible to track the organizers of these yamibaito schemes. Why is that not happening?

@zaphod--in some of these cases, e.g. the Luffy gang, the organizers were already jailed overseas but maintained phone access to run yamibaito, so their trials in that country on other charges had to be waived before they could be brought to trial in Japan. Shows the complexity of coordinating arrests/transfers for suspects outside Japan.

200,000 yen for a life seems a pretty poor trade… hopefully they catch the scum controlling these foot soldiers as well!

Disgusting!

what is happening to Japan?

The middle class is thinning out, that's what's happening. The bigger the underclass is, the higher the crime. This is the direct result of the thirty lost years.