“I Was Actually a Victim…!” — Actress Yuria Satomi Reveals the Details and Horror of the “Black Market Job Robbery”

A series of robberies across Japan have been going viral in the news. On January 19 of this year, a tragic murder of a 90-year-old woman in Komae City, Tokyo, occurred, but what these incidents have in common is that the perpetrators were gathered through social networking services. These are known as “black jobs,” and are said to be a source of funding for semi-gangs and gangs.

People who are completely unacquainted with each other are brought together through social networking sites to commit robberies. To the average person, this is nothing short of terrifying, but in fact, celebrities have been victims of “black market job robbery” before. On October 26, 2020, three teenage boys broke into a tower apartment building in Meguro Ward, where popular sexy actress Yuria Satomi (38) lives, and stole approximately 6 million yen in cash.

Satomi recalls the whole horrifying experience: “I was at home alone when the intercom rang and a man in a deliveryman’s uniform came to visit me. I thought it was the delivery guy, so I opened the auto-lock of my apartment without question. When I got to my room, the doorbell rang again, and I opened the front door to find a pair of men standing there and breaking in.

They said, “You have 100 million yen. We are here to get the money.”

I didn’t know on what basis they were saying ‘100 million yen. I had been reported in the news that I had evaded 300 million yen in taxes (in 2014), and I thought maybe that was why they thought I had 100 million yen at home.

When I told him, “I don’t have 100 million yen,” he said, “Then it must be at the house of the man you used to date. He even knew the address of my former boyfriend, which was accurate. So he probably got the information from my acquaintance and came to my house. They also knew the time of day I was in my room and my room number, so I think they were totally prepared.”

One of the guys who broke in also made light remarks, saying things like, ‘I watched (porn),’ and ‘I had my first experience in the sixth grade,’ and it seemed like he was used to committing crimes. I don’t think it was the first time.

One of the perpetrators was said to have committed the crime while on the phone with his leader through an earphone. This is a common method of “black market robbery.” The leader

I think he left the phone on all the time. He would ask the person on the other end of the line, ‘Did you hear what I just said? After threatening me and ransacking my house, he also told the person in the other line that I really didn’t have 100 million yen.

In a “black market robbery,” the perpetrators usually work in teams of three. Two people are responsible for breaking in, and one person is responsible for watching and driving. In fact, the group that burglarized Satomi’s home also consisted of three people, and they were arrested by the Meguro Police Department the day after the crime was committed.

Looking at the details of the crime, it appears that a criminal organization with considerable scale is behind the scenes, gathering the perpetrators of the “black market job” and controlling them behind the scenes. In order to prevent further damage, we are awaiting the earliest possible clarification of the actual situation.