Overview
- Effective April 1, the task force’s leader shifts from the Criminal Affairs chief to a deputy commissioner to speed enforcement.
- At a Tokyo headquarters event, commanders told roughly 200 investigators to build cases that drive the Kohei group toward collapse.
- Police say the group backs so-called Tokuryu—anonymous, mobile crews that hide chains of command—and takes part in special fraud, illegal scouting of women for sex businesses, and drug sales, noting Sumiyoshi-kai has about 3,200 members with Kohei accounting for roughly a quarter.
- The strategy pools information across divisions and aims to convert intelligence into arrests and prosecutions from many angles.
- Separately, police arrested a Kohei-affiliated boss and five others on suspicion of confining and injuring a male member in February and stealing items worth about ¥900,000.