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Yakuza to be arrested for 2013 murder of Ohsho food chain chief

TOKYO, Oct 28 (Nikkei) - A senior member of one of Japan's major crime syndicates is set to be arrested Friday on suspicion of shooting and killing the president of major fast food chain "Gyoza no Ohsho" in Kyoto in 2013, investigative sources said.

Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Yukio Tanaka, a 56-year-old member of crime syndicate Kudo-kai, after Takayuki Ohigashi, 72, then head of Ohsho Food Service Corp., was shot dead in a parking lot in front of the company's head office in the western Japanese city on Dec. 19, 2013.

The move came after a police investigation demonstrated that traces of DNA from a cigarette butt found near the crime scene matched that of the suspect. The cigarette was the same brand as those Tanaka usually smoked at the time, the sources said.

Tanaka is currently serving time in prison on a 10-year sentence handed down in November 2020, where he was convicted of shooting at a car belonging to a major general contractor in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan.

Ohigashi was shot four times, in his chest and abdomen, when he got out of his car in the parking lot in Kyoto's Yamashina Ward. Several hundred thousands of yen in cash was found left in his car. ...continue reading

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