StellarCrowandClaude Fable 5.1
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Until now only cases 357+ (plus a few older ones) had their linked URLs fetched; the other 252 dossiers held just the text pasted into the spreadsheet, often only the lede. This pass fetches every linked URL for those cases so the full text is on file before link rot takes it. - stage_all.py: new --include-sheet-cases flag that lifts the skip on cases holding spreadsheet articles. Resumable as before. - staging/: raw extracts and index.json for the 252 cases. - sourced-articles.json, case-files-manifest.json: 188 new UNTRIMMED blocks. 179 cases gained at least one fetched article; 73 got none (49 BLOCKED, 18 THIN, 9 DEAD, 4 video/social, 3 ERROR). - sources/*.txt: rebuilt with build_cases.py --all. Sheet pastes are kept; fetched blocks sit beside them under the NOT YET TRIMMED banner. Files previously committed with CRLF are now LF. - wayback-availability.json: Wayback snapshots exist for 73 of the 98 failed URL slots; input for an archive-fetch pass. - README-START-HERE.md: progress note and next step. verify_all.py PASSES (1836 checks). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZENdTLzNGsbNy4DyF1yt
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CASE 130 | Undisclosed | June, 2022 | Japan
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DATABASE RECORD
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id 130
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date June, 2022
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original_date June, 2022
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year 2022
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month 6
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quarter 2022-Q2
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victim Undisclosed
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location Osaka, Japan
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country Japan
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scenario Kidnapping
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description Son of Mitsubishi Electric CEO + 7 men kidnap, torture gym member for crypto assets.
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kidnappings 1
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violence_torture 1
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drugs_alcohol 0
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weapons 0
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theft 1
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life_taken 0
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money_wanted $0.75 million
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coin_type Crypto
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reports CryptoNews
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notes Kidnapped after hearing from gym banter that he had lots of crypto. Held for 20 days in guest house and repeatedly assaulted
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has_processed_date 0
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created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45
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AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources]
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**Victim:** Undisclosed
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**Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators
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**Attack Method:** Kidnapping for ransom
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**Violence Used:** Torture
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**Crypto Stolen:** $0.75 million in Crypto
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**Status:** Investigation ongoing
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LINKED SOURCES
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[url] https://cryptonews.com/news/ex-mitsubishi-electric-ceos-son-charged-with-violent-crypto-theft/
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NOTES ON THIS FILE
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* matched to sheet row 131: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides
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ARTICLE 1
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Source CryptoNews
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URL https://cryptonews.com/news/ex-mitsubishi-electric-ceos-son-charged-with-violent-crypto-theft/
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Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 131, column "Articles"
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Length 1,727 chars
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Ex-Mitsubishi Electric CEO’s Son Charged with Violent Crypto Theft
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Explore the Hottest Presales Right Now
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An image showing a man in handcuffs.
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Source: Naka/Adobe
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [RAW EXTRACT — NOT YET TRIMMED]
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!! This is the whole page as extracted. It still contains site furniture,
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!! and may contain teaser headlines for UNRELATED cases. Trim on read-through.
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!! Do not quote from it without checking the passage belongs to this case.
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Source cryptonews.com
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URL https://cryptonews.com/news/ex-mitsubishi-electric-ceos-son-charged-with-violent-crypto-theft/
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Field url
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Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:52:01+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200)
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Language unknown
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Kept paragraphs ALL 49 paragraphs, untrimmed
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Length 5,356 chars
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Integrity sha256 8f9b6043d31335e569168c501fb963766d0a5bc7245b8887f51902c0ab4148a1
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Trimmed NOT TRIMMED. Full page extract; trim on read-through.
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Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied
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from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against.
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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)
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Ex-Mitsubishi Electric CEO Son ‘Stole Crypto’
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Ex-Mitsubishi Electric CEO’s Son Charged with Violent Crypto Theft
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Tim Alper is a British journalist and features writer who has worked at Cryptonews.com since 2018. He has written for media outlets such as the BBC, the Guardian, and Chosun Ilbo. He has also worked...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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
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— 週刊文春 (@shukan_bunshun) February 13, 2023
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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.
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‘Heinous Crypto Crime’ Could See Ex-Mitsubishi Electric CEO Jailed for 3-4 Years
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The media outlet quoted a former public prosecutor named Nobuo Gohara as stating:
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“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.”
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Gohara opined that, if convicted, a prison sentence of at least three to four years was “inevitable” for Sugiyama Leo.
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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.
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At Cryptonews, we aim to make cryptocurrency, blockchain, and Web3 understandable, and information available to everyone, no matter what level you are in your investment journey. Founded in 2017, Cryptonews has been dedicated to delivering reliable, multilingual coverage of the cryptocurrency industry.
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Tim Alper is a British journalist and features writer who has worked at Cryptonews.com since 2018. He has written for media outlets such as the BBC, the Guardian, and Chosun Ilbo. He has also worked on media projects with Samsung, Sony, LG, Hyundai, Korean Air, Microsoft, Accenture, and more. His crypto-related articles have also been published on The Motley Fool and FXEmpire.
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generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 130
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