Missing FG

[Yokohammer]

40,000 pounds is around 6 million yen.

The fact that he withdrew the money does make it look like he did a runner.
But 6 million yen isn't going to get him very far.

[Russell]

“We are not actively moving [on this],” said Superintendent Hiroshi Kozono of
the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, who confirmed from immigration that Mr Dart
left Japan

I assume they did not mean he left Japan, say, for the afterworld, but rather for another country. Damn newspaper paywall! Does anybody have access to the rest of this article?

Just wait for the edition of the Daily Male.

[Taro Toporific]

40,000 pounds is around 6 million yen.

The fact that he withdrew the money does make it look like he did a runner.
But 6 million yen isn't going to get him very far.

Which is probably the reason why he took the runner. It was his last opportunity to leave with anything in his pocket.

[chibaka]

Dumped wife and kids, fucked off with company money... what a nice chap

[Coligny]

1 since when do we know aboot the money ?
2 that shit looks now 20 times more like an extortion gone bad than a runner...

Want to run ?
Take the money for an official trip oversea with connection flight somewhere, Miss the second flight and take another plane for bumfarkistan, then shave your beard and wear a cowboy hat to avoid sattelite deteckshiun...

[Coligny]

Dumped wife and kids, fucked off with company money... what a nice chap

Jumping to conclusion... Maybe...

[omae mona]

1 since when do we know aboot the money ?

I nearly missed it the first time, but also not behind paywall on the Times site is a photo caption:

Garin Dart took £40,000 from the account of his firm, which organises events and parties for foreign firms

[Coligny]

It the date that would interest me the most.

Same for the imigration, when did he leave the country... (This oart would actually more confirm the hit and run thing... But i don't remember if the custom officers are too carefull on matching the photo of the passport holder with the person living the country)

[Marked Trail]

Dumped wife and kids, fucked off with company money... what a nice chap

Jumping to conclusion... Maybe...

Maybe he's on a remote beach in Thailand enjoying his new life as a go-go dancer.

Eric Myers, Father Presumed Dead For 16 Years, Speaks After Re-Emerging As Gay Man (VIDEO).jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/eric-myers-dead-gay-shocked-family_n_3646397.html

[Taro Toporific]

Dumped wife and kids, fucked off with company money... what a nice chap

Just maybe his fiasco with the BierVana bar in Akasaka had a lot to do with it.
Garin Dart’s BierVana bar opened with a bang November 2010 and suddenly closed with a whimper in November 2012.
Refer to:
• http://www.carolinepover.info/2010/11/brits-at-night-at-garin-darts-new-bar/
• http://www.biervana.com/news/closure

[Samurai_Jerk]

Dumped wife and kids, fucked off with company money... what a nice chap

Jumping to conclusion... Maybe...

Maybe he's on a remote beach in Thailand enjoying his new life as a go-go dancer.

Eric Myers, Father Presumed Dead For 16 Years, Speaks After Re-Emerging As Gay Man (VIDEO).jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/eric-myers-dead-gay-shocked-family_n_3646397.html

Besides the emotional complications, Myers's homecoming also was contentious legally. After his return, the family became embroiled in a court battle with Liberty Life Insurance, which claims the Myers family owes $800,000 plus interest in death benefits, according to the Republic.

Fucking insurance companies are pure evil.

[wagyl]

Fucking insurance companies are pure evil.

As are fucking people who lie when they make a claim (and no, I am not necessarily saying that the abandoned wife was lying, but I can definitely see an insurance company trying to recover when the event which they made a payment for, the death of the husband, did not in fact occur). At the very least in increases the premiums you have to pay.

[kgeyes]

A British businessman in Tokyo, whose disappearance provoked lurid rumours about his assassination by Japanese gangsters, slipped out of the country after withdrawing £40,000 of his company’s money.
Police have stopped searching for 41-year old Garin Dart, a Tokyo resident who organised parties for expatriates, because they believe that he has run away. The news will lead to conjecture about what drove a father to abandon his pregnant wife, child, friends and colleagues, and vanish.
“We are not actively moving [on this],” said Superintendent Hiroshi Kozono of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, who confirmed from immigration that Mr Dart left Japan after his disappearance for an unknown destination. “There is a possibility of embezzlement.”
Mr Dart was well-known among Tokyo expatriates. His company, Bluesilver, organised parties and fundraising events for some of the city’s biggest foreign companies, including banks, law firms and airlines.
He had recently established an office in Hong Kong, and was embarking on a business selling a stopper for wine bottles, which were manufactured in China. His wife, Yukako, 38, is pregnant with their second child.
He also set up a network called Foreign Volunteers Japan to help communities in northeastern Japan which were devastated by the 2011 tsunami. Friends and business contacts reported that he appeared tired and overworked,and was struggling to fulfil commitments to organise 35 events within a month. However, those who worked with him reported nothing odd on the day of his disappearance on May 22.
According to his family and Canadian business partner, Bruno Dammizio, he was not heard from after sending texts at 1pm on his way to a meeting in the Shinjuku area.
Those that knew him have declined to discuss what happened before that, when Mr Dart went to a bank and withdrew 6 million (£39,500) from a Bluesilver account. According to Superintendent Kozono, some of this was deposited in Mr Dart’s personal bank account, and part taken in cash. His assistant, Ayako Kawauchi, told police that she usually handled banking, and that for Mr Dart to do so was unusual.
Mr Dart’s wife, Yukako, 38, reported him missing two days later, and a few days, expatriate social media pages were buzzing with rumours and speculation. One posting on the Foreign Volunteers Japan website claimed that Mr Dart was “killed because he stopped the yakuza [Japanese gangsters] doing a bad thing”. Some of Mr Dart’s friends were puzzled when his family asked them not to distribute flyers or posters appealing for information about him.
When a British woman, Lucie Blackman, disappeared in Japan in 2000, it was sustained campaigning by her family that pressured police into catching her killer. But when Mr Dart’s mother, Finella Dean, 64, came out to Tokyo, she did not meet the police. Both she and Yukako Dart declined to answer questions about Mr Dart’s disappearance , as did Mr Dammizio, who invested in the company last October.
There have been no criminal complaints against Mr Dart. A spokesman for Bluesilver, who declined to be named, said: “The fact he was carrying a large amount of money is compatible with the event business. Some vendors prefer cash.”

[Samurai_Jerk]

Fucking insurance companies are pure evil.

As are fucking people who lie when they make a claim (and no, I am not necessarily saying that the abandoned wife was lying, but I can definitely see an insurance company trying to recover when the event which they made a payment for, the death of the husband, did not in fact occur). At the very least in increases the premiums you have to pay.

The difference is that only applies to a small percentage of customers whereas all insurance companies are evil. If the family didn't commit fraud, sue the guy who disappeared. If you can understand or defend the insurance company in this case, you're a piece of shit.

[havill]

¥6,000,000 is criminal level embezzlement, no? He can't go back or be found now: he'd be possibly looking at jail time.

[Coligny]

¥6,000,000 is criminal level embezzlement, no? He can't go back or be found now: he'd be possibly looking at jail time.

Please don't tell my wife, please don't tell my wife... please don't tell my wife... At home i call this cheezeburger allowance...
(Wait... Maybe there is a bunch less zeros in fact...)

[havill]

My guess is he had to put some of that money in his personal account because he can't carry more than $10K equivalent of cash into a foreign country without declaring it.

[wagyl]

Fucking insurance companies are pure evil.

As are fucking people who lie when they make a claim (and no, I am not necessarily saying that the abandoned wife was lying, but I can definitely see an insurance company trying to recover when the event which they made a payment for, the death of the husband, did not in fact occur). At the very least in increases the premiums you have to pay.

The difference is that only applies to a small percentage of customers whereas all insurance companies are evil. If the family didn't commit fraud, sue the guy who disappeared. If you can understand or defend the insurance company in this case, you're a piece of shit.

Meh. Are there any times you are forced to take out life insurance? You can avoid the evil, or your family can be grateful for the help that a payout provides. Choice is yours. You aren't around to see the struggles your family goes through without you there.

My guess is he had to put some of that money in his personal account because he can't carry more than $10K equivalent of cash into a foreign country without declaring it.

That assumes that he was scrupulously honest in his declarations upon leaving the country..... I haven't made that assumption yet.

[GomiGirl]

Three months for immigration to release this information?

[wagyl]

Three months for immigration to release this information?

Careful now. That is close to giving support to some of the claims CJ and MQT have made.

It might have been Immigration only just providing information to Police, might be Police wanting to make further investigations after receiving the information before deciding to abandon the case and use that as one of their reasons. My gut feeling is that they knew pretty soon after, as that could explain the "no poster campaign" directive. It gave them time to see if there was any movement in his personal bank account too.

[GomiGirl]

Three months for immigration to release this information?

Careful now. That is close to giving support to some of the claims CJ and MQT have made.

It might have been Immigration only just providing information to Police, might be Police wanting to make further investigations after receiving the information before deciding to abandon the case and use that as one of their reasons. My gut feeling is that they knew pretty soon after, as that could explain the "no poster campaign" directive. It gave them time to see if there was any movement in his personal bank account too.

I think you might be right.

Damn I feel sorry for his wife and kid.

[omae mona]

As I suggested above, I think there's also a darn good chance that he was actually in Japan the whole time, in hiding, and just checked out via immigration recently. Unless they had filed some sort of criminal charges against him (unlikely), the police would not have asked immigration to block his exit from Japan. They probably did ask for a heads-up in case he showed up, though.

[wagyl]

A British businessman in Tokyo, whose disappearance provoked lurid rumours about his assassination by Japanese gangsters, slipped out of the country after withdrawing £40,000 of his company’s money.

...<snip>...

One posting on the Foreign Volunteers Japan website claimed that Mr Dart was “killed because he stopped the yakuza [Japanese gangsters] doing a bad thing”.

I am assuming this is the content of the Times article. Interestingly, a search for that yakuza quote, with or without the [gloss], only points back to this thread. A made up quote? A deleted quote? I was only wanting to verify whether it was a claim made on that site, or mere speculation. I already had my own view, but the plot is even thicker than I thought.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Fucking insurance companies are pure evil.

As are fucking people who lie when they make a claim (and no, I am not necessarily saying that the abandoned wife was lying, but I can definitely see an insurance company trying to recover when the event which they made a payment for, the death of the husband, did not in fact occur). At the very least in increases the premiums you have to pay.

The difference is that only applies to a small percentage of customers whereas all insurance companies are evil. If the family didn't commit fraud, sue the guy who disappeared. If you can understand or defend the insurance company in this case, you're a piece of shit.

Meh. Are there any times you are forced to take out life insurance? You can avoid the evil, or your family can be grateful for the help that a payout provides. Choice is yours. You aren't around to see the struggles your family goes through without you there.

So you are a piece of shit. Thanks for the confirmation.

[Coligny]

Dumped wife and kids, fucked off with company money... what a nice chap

Jumping to conclusion... Maybe...

Maybe he's on a remote beach in Thailand enjoying his new life as a go-go dancer.

Eric Myers, Father Presumed Dead For 16 Years, Speaks After Re-Emerging As Gay Man (VIDEO).jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/eric-myers-dead-gay-shocked-family_n_3646397.html

Besides the emotional complications, Myers's homecoming also was contentious legally. After his return, the family became embroiled in a court battle with Liberty Life Insurance, which claims the Myers family owes $800,000 plus interest in death benefits, according to the Republic.

Fucking insurance companies are pure evil.

Plus... In Japan there is a 3 years status of limitation for crime, usually for financial things (in france at least) it's 10 years... So after 16 years... I think the insurance company my be able to enjoy a nice cup of "go fuck yourself"

[omae mona]

I'm with wagyl on this (and by extension, I'm a piece of shit, too). The individual completely fucked his family over. There is no reason it's the insurance company's job to make up for that. It's not fuckover insurance, it's life insurance. If you want fuckover insurance, you'd need to pay more. A hell of a lot more. Try to get an insurance policy that legitimately covers the policyholder for the family breadwinner abandoning his family. You can definitely get a specialist insurance shop to write you such a policy, and they're probably going to charge you close to 100% of the payout value up front, because anybody looking for such protection is pretty much guaranteed to go missing right away.

If you told people in Japan "if your husband goes missing and stays missing long enough, you're entitled to the life insurance payout and can keep it when he comes home", I think we'd end up with half the salarymen taking an extended vacation. Seriously. Imagine if the insurance company does NOT sue to recover the payout. What message does that send? How many of their policyholders will suddenly go missing? The answer is: a hell of a lot.

I wouldn't want my life insurance premiums pooled with people entitled to fuckover pay.. it would raise my premiums immensely.

[legion]

I used to have an insurance company as a client, told me stories that made my toes curl.

As for Garin, leaving your child & pregnant wife is missing out on the best times you will ever have. Idiot.

I wonder if he took the money and ran at once, if not the police & immigration office need to get their computers fixed.

[havill]

That assumes that he was scrupulously honest in his declarations upon leaving the country..... I haven't made that assumption yet.

True. But if you're caught going through CIQ with excessive undeclared cash on your body, you risk having it confiscated/seized or frozen.

[legion]

That assumes that he was scrupulously honest in his declarations upon leaving the country..... I haven't made that assumption yet.

True. But if you're caught going through CIQ with excessive undeclared cash on your body, you risk having it confiscated/seized or frozen.

if he was in a rational frame of mind that might have been a deterrent

[Taro Toporific]

Just wait for the edition of the Daily Male.

Garin Dart: British ex-pat feared dead in Tokyo could be alive.
Businessman 'took £40,000 from his company and left the country'
Mail Online | 2013jul28
...Today, friends of Mr Dart expressed their shock at the latest twist in his disappearance on a Facebook group which had appealed for information about his disappearance.
Some suggested the relatively small amount of money he took may mean there was a serious reason he had to leave.
Branden Brazil wrote: 'We have yet to get the full story. I have no idea what his motivation for running off is. Certainly, the amount of money he allegedly took, is hardly enough to support a long term jetsetter's life in Rio. I imagine that he had very serious reasons to leave, and at this time, those reasons are mere speculation.'
While Corrie MacDonald said: 'None of us really know what has happened and what has driven him to do any of this - we are all still speculating - but a lot of us know Garin well enough to realise he is a great guy, good friend and that he was a loving & very proud family man and yes if this is what he has done then its not a good thing to do BUT he must have had extremely good reasons to and will have had no other choice and wherever he is he is definitely not sunning it up on a beach. Lets all just hope that he will come back to us safe & sound.'
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