gambling place for profit and habitual gambling in 9 cases, and distribution of obscene material and violation of Child Pornography Prevention Act in 6 cases, and were related to various offences such as violation of the Pharmaceutical Law, the Copyright Law, and the Worker Dispatch Law. This shows that members of the Boryokudan conduct money laundering offences involving in various offences.

## (1) Criminal Proceeds by “black market finances” and the Boryokudan

40% of the cases cleared for money laundering related to “black market finances” during 2008 were involved in members of the Boryokudan. Examples of sophisticated method of concealment of criminal proceeds are as follows;

• A case where a member of the Boryokudan ran a “black market finance.” On receipt of the interest at illegal high interest rate, he made loanees deposit money into an account under another person’s name managed by him (Case 6).

• A case where a member of the Boryokudan lends money for a recipient of pension on the account passbook as collateral and makes money automatically transferred from the account of recipient to an account under another person’s name managed by the member of the Boryokudan.

## [Case 6] (Concealment of Criminal Proceeds in Violation of the Investment Law (very high interest rate) / Money-lending Business Law (unregistered))

The executive members of the Boryokudan affiliated with the Yamaguchi Gumi, which runs storeless “black market finance” (so-called 090 finance) lent money totally of 150,000,000 yen to approximately 300 loanees at high interest rates exceeding 70 times of the legal rate, and made the loanees deposit some of the interest into an account under name of a friend of the members managed by them. The members were arrested in violation of Act on the Punishment of Organized Crime (charged with concealment of criminal proceeds, etc.).

(March, Aichi Pref. Police)

### (2) Criminal Proceeds by “Furikome” fraud, etc., and the Boryokudan

28.2% of the cases cleared for money laundering related to “Furikome” fraud, etc. during 2008 were involved in members of the Boryokudan. In “Furikome” fraud, a member of the Boryokudan has the victim deposit money into an account, which is under another person’s name managed by a member of the Boryokudan, in order to conceal the received criminal proceeds, under various terms such as unpaid credit settlement, adult website member registration renewal or withdrawal, repayment of a loan by relatives of the victim to the “black market finance” to purchase stock.

## [Case 7] (Concealment of Criminal Proceeds by “Furikome” Fraud (“Ore-Ore” Fraud))

An executive member of the Boryokudan affiliated with the Yamaguchi-Gumi introduced Japanese for disguising as police officers or representatives of the Japanese Bankers Association and visiting a victim under the term of notification of the forged cash card to cheat the victim out of the cash card to Chinese “Furikome” fraud group who use such method. The Japanese who was introduced by the Boryokudan deposits money as a referral fee into an account under another person’s name managed by the executive member. The suspect was arrested for violation of Act on the Punishment of Organized Crime (charged with concealment of criminal proceeds, etc.).

(September, Tokushima Pref. Police)