TOKYO, Sept 11, 2014 (AFP) - Japanese police on Thursday arrested the leader of a particularly brutal yakuza organised crime syndicate for allegedly gunning down a man in public, a police spokesman said.
Satoru Nomura, 67, the top leader of Kudokai - acknowledged as one of the most dangerous yakuza crime syndicates in Japan - was taken into custody over the 1998 fatal shooting of a 70-year-old man, a police spokesman said.
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