TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 55-year-old man who allegedly extorted 600,000 yen from a pedestrian in Akihabara by staging a collision and claiming the victim broke his dental implant, reports TV Asahi (Aug. 6).
Kazuya Takeda, a company employee, was taken into custody after targeting a man in his 50s. Upon his arrest, Takeda confessed to running the bizarre extortion racket for over 20 years, telling investigators, “I’ve been doing this since 2002. I’ve done it about 100 times and taken in a total of around 40 million yen.”
The recent incident unfolded on the streets near JR Akihabara Station. According to police, Takeda trailed the victim, who was walking with a plastic beverage bottle protruding from his bag. In a highly calculated move, Takeda stealthily smeared his own blood onto the bottle’s cap before making his approach.
“We just bumped into each other and my implant broke, so pay up,” Takeda allegedly threatened the bewildered victim. “Look, there’s blood on it, isn’t there?”
To further sell the lie, Takeda produced small, white fragments resembling broken teeth and aggressively closed in on the man. Intimidated, the victim was forced to go to a nearby ATM, withdraw 600,000 yen in cash, and hand it over.
However, investigators revealed that not only did the two men never actually collide, but medical records confirm Takeda does not even possess any dental implants.
Police currently investigating Takeda’s claims regarding the 100 additional extortion cases.
