If you run away, you’ll be in big trouble! …Luffy, the black market robber: “Former gangster’s gangster organization is afraid to talk to you?
Lawyer’s Office Raided in Unusual Raid
On November 28, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department searched the home and law office of attorney K. K., 39, who is known as “Rufy,” and who was in charge of directing a black market robbery, at the Harajuku Police Station in Tokyo in February of this year, with a transparent partition between them. The defendant is alleged to have allowed him to talk to a person in the Philippines via a cell phone he had brought with him.
The defendant (39) and the defendant (39) were met at the Harajuku police station in Tokyo in February of this year with a transparent partition between them. JP Dragon’ is a top organization for black market robbery and fraud, and is said to be composed of former gang members. It is said that Imamura was told not to talk about anything that was not necessary, and that K visited him at the request of JP Dragon.
The defendant was verbally warned that he was not allowed to bring his cell phone to the meeting, but there was no specific inspection. In accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure, investigators were not present at this meeting, and Imamura and K were alone. It is possible that the evidence was being destroyed because of Imamura’s involvement in the case.
Imamura and his co-conspirators were based in the Philippines and were active in the dark. FRIDAY Digital” reported in detail on the case and the Imamura defendants who were transferred from the Philippines in an article distributed on July 2. We would like to reproduce the article and introduce the horrifying reality of the black market robber who rules the perpetrators with fear (some parts have been modified).
Use of a highly secretive application
The man in charge of the transfer was sitting in the back seat of the car, showing no signs of offence.
On June 29, the Metropolitan Police Department’s Investigation Division 1 arrested Imamura, who had been deported from the Philippines, on suspicion of robbery. Imamura is believed to have been the instructor of a string of black market robberies across the country, calling himself Rufy or Kim.
Imamura is believed to be involved in an incident in May ’22 in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, in which 41 luxury wristwatches (worth approximately 69.2 million yen) were robbed. Imamura gave instructions to 13 people, including the perpetrators and a car rental procurer, using a highly confidential communication application called “Telegram”. It was discovered that a part of the converted money was given to the defendant Imamura.
The cashier sold 19 of the 41 luxury watches he took for approximately 13.5 million yen to a Tokyo-based watch dealer. Imamura had the defendant send the money to an account in his own name on three separate occasions starting in May ’22. It is also known that the entire amount was withdrawn near the immigration facility in the Philippines where Imamura was imprisoned at the time.

Imamura seems to have given detailed instructions to the perpetrators. The Yomiuri Shimbun (June 30) reported that a detainee at an immigration facility in the Philippines was told by telephone, “You have three minutes to finish.
Finish it within three minutes. Get out of here as soon as you take it.
The item you want is in the showcase in the middle of the store. Make sure the watch doesn’t get damaged.
A former reporter from the social affairs section continued, “These instructions led to Imamura’s arrest.
From these instructions, it is clear that Imamura and the other officers in charge of the crime investigated the crime scene in detail in advance. They even knew the location of the showcase and where the luxury watches were placed. The time of the crime, ‘within three minutes,’ was probably not a random order, but rather a number derived by calculating backward from the fact that the police would rush to the scene upon receiving a call.
Most of the perpetrators applied for “black market jobs” on social networking sites and got involved in the crime. They were attracted by the high rewards, such as “10 million yen reward for robbery” and “1 million yen per day,” and came forward with their names. In reality, however, it was not such a convenient part-time job. They were ruled by fear and anxiety.
Applicants were asked to send a picture of their face and an ID, such as a driver’s license. Once they sent the images, they received a message that said, “If you run away, you’ll be in big trouble! Once they sent the images, they received a message to the effect that “If you run away, you’ll be in big trouble! Since the applicant had even told them about his family structure, he could not simply leave, fearing that even his relatives would be harmed.
In fact, some of the perpetrators have stated that “a stranger visited me at home out of the blue” and “I thought I was being watched. Some of them did not receive any reward at all.
Even if they regretted that they had joined such a terrible organization, it would be too late. The perpetrators were probably so afraid of Luffy that they could not go back. However, as I mentioned earlier, Luffy was also kept in the dark by a group of former gang members.



PHOTO: Shinji Hasuo