Yasuo Takei
Yasuo Takei ( Japanese 武 井 保 雄 , Takei Yasuo , born January 4, 1930 , † August 10, 2006 ) was a Japanese multibillionaire and founder of the consumer credit company Takefuji .
biography
Takei founded the Fuji Shoji credit institution in 1966 and renamed it Takefuji in 1974. Under his leadership, the company became the market leader in installment loans in Japan.
His reputation and the company's market value suffered in the 1990s when it became known that the company was using dubious methods to collect outstanding loans. Takei was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence for illegally wiretapping and insulting journalists in connection with reporting these practices ; he was also fined $ 8,700. He had previously tapped the phones of two freelance journalists who had published critical articles about himself and his company. He was also found guilty of directing Takefuji employees to post abusive statements about one of the journalists on the company website. In the ruling, Takei was also obliged to sell the majority of his company. He resigned from his chairmanship at Takefuji, but is said to have still checked the company over the phone. When he died, he and his family still held less than 25% of Takefuji.
Takei died of liver failure . At the time of his death, he was the second wealthiest man in Japan after Masayoshi Son on Forbes Magazine's 2006 list, with total assets estimated at $ 5.6 billion .
Literature and web links
- Mariko Yasu, “Acom Net Falls 59% on Bad Loans; Takefuji Has Profit " , Bloomberg July 28, 2006
- “Gangster story: Japan's richest man died” , Spiegel Online , August 11, 2006
- Chris Noon, "Yasuo Takei" , Forbes Magazine , August 11, 2006
- "Takefuji - Takei Credit Pioneer Has Died", Handelsblatt , August 14, 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ "Takefuji chief gets suspended term" , The Japan Times Weekly, November 27, 2004, (accessed August 11, 2006)
- ↑ Masami Ito: "Takefuji chief's wiretaps net suspended term" ( memento of the original from March 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The Japan Times , November 18, 2004, (accessed August 11, 2006)
- ^ The 400 Richest Japanese , Forbes Magazine (2006), accessed August 12, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Takei, Yasuo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 武 井 保 雄 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese banker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th January 1930 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 10, 2006 |