================================================================================================ CASE 130 | Undisclosed | June, 2022 | Japan ================================================================================================ DATABASE RECORD id 130 date June, 2022 original_date June, 2022 year 2022 month 6 quarter 2022-Q2 victim Undisclosed location Osaka, Japan country Japan scenario Kidnapping description Son of Mitsubishi Electric CEO + 7 men kidnap, torture gym member for crypto assets. kidnappings 1 violence_torture 1 drugs_alcohol 0 weapons 0 theft 1 life_taken 0 money_wanted $0.75 million coin_type Crypto reports CryptoNews notes Kidnapped after hearing from gym banter that he had lots of crypto. Held for 20 days in guest house and repeatedly assaulted has_processed_date 0 created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45 (flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. See README, Definitions.) AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources] **Victim:** Undisclosed **Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators **Attack Method:** Kidnapping for ransom **Violence Used:** Torture **Crypto Stolen:** $0.75 million in Crypto **Status:** Investigation ongoing LINKED SOURCES [url] https://cryptonews.com/news/ex-mitsubishi-electric-ceos-son-charged-with-violent-crypto-theft/ NOTES ON THIS FILE * matched to sheet row 131: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLE 1 Source CryptoNews URL https://cryptonews.com/news/ex-mitsubishi-electric-ceos-son-charged-with-violent-crypto-theft/ Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 131, column "Articles" Length 1,727 chars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ex-Mitsubishi Electric CEO’s Son Charged with Violent Crypto Theft Explore the Hottest Presales Right Now An image showing a man in handcuffs. Source: Naka/Adobe The son of the former CEO of Mitsubishi Electric has been arrested in a violent crypto robbery and kidnapping case in Japan – which saw a crypto holder allegedly confined and beaten over a period of 20 days. Per Weekly Bunshun, Kyoto Prefectural Police arrested eight men on suspicion of kidnapping, assaulting, and confining an individual. Police said this was part of an attempt to steal some $0.75 million worth of tokens. Officers stated that Sugiyama Leo (30) was the group’s ringleader. Sugiyama Leo was described as a “company executive” and gym operator living in Osaka. And his father, the news outlet noted, is Takeshi Sugiyama, who served as Mitsubishi Electric’s CEO from 2018 to 2021. The media outlet reported that in June of last year, Sugiyama Leo learned that a member of a gym he managed in Osaka was in possession of considerable cryptoasset holdings. Police said that Sugiyama Leo and his associates confined this individual to a room in a guest house. Here, the victim was allegedly “tied up with adhesive tape and repeatedly assaulted.” Officers stated that the victim was repeatedly “kicked in the head.” The assailants also reportedly “threatened to kill the victim’s family” if the victim “ran away or lied to them.” Eventually, the assailants managed to coerce the victim into handing over their crypto wallet’s private keys, officers said. Police said that the gang then proceeded to steal the crypto – but that the victim finally managed to escape. Once free, the victim then sought help from a “passer-by” near the guest house. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED] !! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person. !! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article. !! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting. 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Unlike text copied from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved) Ex-Mitsubishi Electric CEO Son ‘Stole Crypto’ The son of the former CEO of Mitsubishi Electric has been arrested in a violent crypto robbery and kidnapping case in Japan – which saw a crypto holder allegedly confined and beaten over a period of 20 days. Per Weekly Bunshun, Kyoto Prefectural Police arrested eight men on suspicion of kidnapping, assaulting, and confining an individual. Police said this was part of an attempt to steal some $0.75 million worth of tokens. Officers stated that Sugiyama Leo (30) was the group’s ringleader. Sugiyama Leo was described as a “company executive” and gym operator living in Osaka. And his father, the news outlet noted, is Takeshi Sugiyama, who served as Mitsubishi Electric’s CEO from 2018 to 2021. The media outlet reported that in June of last year, Sugiyama Leo learned that a member of a gym he managed in Osaka was in possession of considerable cryptoasset holdings. Police said that Sugiyama Leo and his associates confined this individual to a room in a guest house. Here, the victim was allegedly “tied up with adhesive tape and repeatedly assaulted.” Officers stated that the victim was repeatedly “kicked in the head.” The assailants also reportedly “threatened to kill the victim’s family” if the victim “ran away or lied to them.” Eventually, the assailants managed to coerce the victim into handing over their crypto wallet’s private keys, officers said. 20日間監禁し1億円の暗号資産を強奪した犯人は三菱電機前社長の息子だった#週刊文春https://t.co/rUSaNZnssp — 週刊文春 (@shukan_bunshun) February 13, 2023 Police said that the gang then proceeded to steal the crypto – but that the victim finally managed to escape. Once free, the victim then sought help from a “passer-by” near the guest house. ‘Heinous Crypto Crime’ Could See Ex-Mitsubishi Electric CEO Jailed for 3-4 Years The media outlet quoted a former public prosecutor named Nobuo Gohara as stating: “This was an exceptionally heinous crime in which the defenseless victim was assaulted in captivity. The perpetrators extorted a large amount of money from the victim.” Gohara opined that, if convicted, a prison sentence of at least three to four years was “inevitable” for Sugiyama Leo. Established in 1921, Mitsubishi Electric is one of Japan’s biggest electrical goods companies. The company is one of the core units in the Mitsubishi Group – one of Asia’s most lucrative family-run business groups. Last month, a Tokyo-based woman in her eighties was reportedly cheated out of $748,000 worth of crypto by a scammer who claimed that her bank account was being attacked. 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