Nine years ago, a Kudo-kai affiliated gangster executive was arrested for shooting and killing the president of a company that operates ``Gyoza no Ohsho''. Interviews with investigative officials revealed that there were two cigarette butts that had been taken.
Police are investigating the suspect as an ambush in the passageway.
On October 28, 2013, the president of Osho Food Service, Takayuki Daito (then 72), was shot dead in front of the head office in Kyoto. Yukio Tanaka (56), a gang leader affiliated with a dangerous gang and Kudokai, was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being investigated as the executioner of the shooting.
It is known that a cigarette butt with the same DNA type as that of Tanaka was found in a passage near the scene, but an interview with investigative officials revealed that there were two cigarette butts. rice field.
All of the cigarette brands were consistent with what Tanaka usually smokes.
The passage where the cigarette butt was found is a blind spot from the murder scene, and the police are proceeding with the investigation, assuming that Tanaka was ambushing Mr. Daito at this place.
"Osho" President Watanabe "Resolved all relationships with inappropriate business partners"
On the 31st, President Naoto Watanabe attended a press conference on the interim financial results of "Osho Food Service", which develops "Gyoza no Osho".
Among them, regarding the arrest of the suspect in the murder of then-president Takayuki Otohashi nine years ago, President Watanabe said, "The full story has not been clarified yet, but after receiving the sudden tragedy, I've been working hard to protect the company, so I feel 'good'."
At the press conference, questions were also raised about the company's previous repeated inappropriate transactions with a specific corporate group, and Mr. Daito's attempt to remedy this.
Regarding this, President Watanabe said, "We have established a third-party committee and conducted a thorough internal investigation. Among them, we found that there were some inappropriate relationships with business partners, so on March 30, 2016 All of them have been resolved with this, and I would like to make it clear that I have no relationship with this corporate group at all now."
After that, he explained, "In the past, we sometimes made decisions behind closed doors, but now we are working hard to strengthen governance, such as by appointing legal experts as outside directors."
In addition, he emphasized that the suspect arrested this time was a gang leader of the Kudo-kai affiliated gang, saying, "We are convinced that there is no connection with anti-social forces."
President Watanabe spoke about Mr. Daito's personality, sometimes tearing up and at a loss for words, and said, "I would like to see a solution that can satisfy former president Daito, who lost his life in grief."