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Tuesday October 31, 1:51 AM4 men rearrested over murder in Philippines for insurance money(Kyodo) _ Four Japanese men were served fresh arrest warrants Monday on suspicion of murdering a Japanese businessman in July last year in the Philippines for insurance money, the police said.The four suspects are Makoto Yoshii, 50, a former president of a real estate company in Tokyo; Yoichi Muramatsu, 57, the company's former employee; Toshitaka Yamamoto, 55, another former company employee; and Koji Inagaki, 44, a former member of a gangster group affiliated with the Inagawa-kai crime syndicate, the police said. Of them, Yoshii alone denied the allegations, saying he has nothing to do with the incident, according to investigations. The police suspect the four conspired to kill Takaaki Yushina, 40. Yushina was covered by an overseas travel insurance policy worth 75 million yen when he died. The beneficiary was the Tokyo real estate firm he worked for. According to investigators both in Japan and the Philippines, Yushina traveled to the Philippines on July 25, 2005, with Muramatsu, Yamamoto and another man from the property company and visited a resort. Inagagi had arrived in the Philippines beforehand. On the night of July 28, the body of Yushina, who had been shot in the neck, was found on Luzon Island in the northern Philippines. The three who accompanied Yushina returned to Japan on July 29, according to investigations. Of the three, a 48-year-old man detained over insurance fraud charges committed suicide at a police detention facility in Tokyo in August this year. The police suspect the man has shot Yushina to death, with Yoshii masterminding the alleged murder-for-insurance plan, and are planning to send papers on the dead man to prosecutors on suspicion of murdering Yushina. Yoshii, Muramatsu, Yamamoto and the man who killed himself had been arrested and indicted for alleged fraud in labor insurance benefits given to disabled workers by faking road accidents. On Oct. 10, the police served new arrest warrants on the three, excluding the man who committed suicide, on suspicion of forging documents aimed at borrowing operation funds from their acquaintance. |
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