Japan’s gang leader was sentenced to death after group members attacked civilians
On Tuesday, a district court in Japan sentenced the head of a gangster organization to death after its members killed one civilian and injured three others. However, there was no direct evidence he ordered the attacks, the public broadcaster said.
In handing down the sentence, a judge in Fukuoka, western Japan, said strict controls were in place at the Kudokai crime syndicate. It was unthinkable that the attacks had been carried out without the leader's authorization said.
Between 1998 and 2014, Kudokai members shot and killed a former head of a fishing cooperative and injured three others, including a nurse and a former police officer, by shooting or stabbing,
The news agency said that defence lawyers for the Kudokai head, Satoru Nomura, 74, plan to appeal the ruling.
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