$1,000 USD Seized: foreign crime wave?

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Is this BIG news or what? Sheesh.
1,000 U.S. Dollars Seized During Search At Usurers
TBS TV Aug 13
During searches at places related to crime syndicate-affiliated loan shark businesses launched earlier this week, police apparently seized greenbacks amounting to nearly 1,000 dollars from a condominium where suspect Toshikazu Matsuzaki, an aide to the "don" of the loan shark business, had been hiding....Metropolitan Police Department is continuing its investigations looking into the possibility that Kajiyama received some of the proceeds from loan sharks in U.S. dollars with the aim to take the money out of Japan.