Yasuo Takei (武井保雄, ''Takei Yasuo'') (January 4, 1930 – August 10, 2006) was the founder and former chairman of
Takefuji (武富士),
Japan
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's number one consumer finance group.
On 17 November 2004 he was given a three-year
suspended sentence
A suspended sentence is a sentence on conviction for a criminal offence, the serving of which the court orders to be deferred in order to allow the defendant to perform a period of probation. If the defendant does not break the law during that ...
for
wiretapping and defamation of character, after ordering the phones of two
freelance journalists who had written articles critical of Takefuji to be bugged between December 2000 and February 2001. The defamation of character charge followed Takei's ordering Takefuji employees to place libelous statements about one of the journalists on its web site.
According to a ''Forbes'' survey in June 2006, Takei was the second-wealthiest person in Japan (after
Masayoshi Son) - he possessed an estimated net worth of US$5.6 billion.
Bloomberg.com: Japan
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See also
* List of billionaires
References
External links
Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People
1930 births
2006 deaths
Japanese billionaires
20th-century Japanese businesspeople
21st-century Japanese businesspeople
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