Cops find loan shark database creator
Yomiuri Shimbun Nov 16
A 41-year-old man who built a customer management database for an illegal moneylending group was paid 82 million yen for his maintenance of the database and other computer-related work by 27 affiliates of the group... during a 2-1/2-year period ending February... Goryokai--an affiliate of the nation's largest organized crime syndicate, Yamaguchi-gumi--made all payments to its affiliated organizations in cash..."In order to deal with the large number of clients nationwide, we had to lend and collect money efficiently," a former employee of the network said. "Perhaps the system was even more efficient than that of a normal company."