Racketeer arrested in illegal payoff case

Racketeer arrested in illegal payoff case

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuo Okuda (R), a resident of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, is escorted to the Osaka Higashi Police Station on the morning of Nov. 9 after he allegedly received money in exchange for dissuading other ''sokaiya'' racketeers from disrupting Kobe Steel's shareholders' meeting held in 1997. Okuda was arrested later in the day.

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  • 1999/11/09 00:00:00
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