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Japanese gangster arrested for cross-border pornography
October 21, 2004
A Japanese yakuza gangster was arrested Tuesday in Taipei on charges of beaming
pirated pornographic movies around Asia, using Taiwan as his operating base,
according to the Criminal Investigation Bureau.
Shuichi Mogi, a member of the Japanese yakuza gang Yamaguchi-Gumi, who is the
president of two Taiwan companies, has been operating pornographic movie
broadcasts by first transporting porno DVDs from Japan to Taiwan and then
beaming them from Taiwan via the satellite channel Jwave to places around Asia,
CIB officials said yesterday.
Mogi's Jwave porno broadcasts - operated through his Taiwan companies Yixinhui
and Oriental Digital - have reached "clients" in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea,
Guam and many Southeast Asian countries, CIB investigators said.
In raids on Yixinhui and Oriental Digital Tuesday, the police busted Mogi and
his Taiwanese vice president, Huang Wei-chin, and confiscated a large number of
porno DVDs, as well as a satellite antennae, receivers, IC cards, account
books, and Web site materials.
The investigators are also trying to track down Mogi's Taiwanese partner,
surnamed Yen, and other accomplices who remain at large.
The police have learned that the Yamaguchi-Gumi gang has been broadcasting
porno via satellite for quite a long time. In Taiwan, "clients" spend NT$20,000
for equipment, including an antenna, a receiver and cable, to get access to the
24-hour porno broadcasts, with extra fees for a decoding IC card and monthly
payments of NT$2,000.
The Yamaguchi-Gumi beam the porno movies to clients throughout Asia by
up-linking to the Palapa C2 channel in Indonesia and another channel in the
Philippines, the police said.
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