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According to one veteran expert on the yakuza, the new activities of the nation's largest crime syndicates have effectively turned the mob into the biggest private equity firm in Japan. […]Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission has compiled a watch list of hundreds of companies suspected of direct or indirect links to mafia money. The list, which was drawn up in private but has been seen by The Times, includes more than 200 publicly traded companies, many of which are household names in Japan.
The issue has become so acute that the Osaka Stock Exchange has been forced to introduce an entirely new screening system to establish which companies have direct mob links or large quantities of yakuza money on their shareholder registers. Scores of companies, one exchange source said, faced the threat of being delisted.
Ist bei uns genau so, nur dass die bei uns nicht mit dem Selbstbild des Mafiosi arbeiten, sondern sich ganz normal Investoren oder Hedge Fonds nennen.Was sagt euch das, wenn die Mafia von den "normalen Investoren" nicht zu unterscheiden ist? Laut Artikel stellt die Yakuza auch reihenweise die wegen der Kreditkrise gefeuerten Trader ein. Nur dass die Mafiosi sich wahrscheinlich im Vergleich zum Vorstand einer Investmentbank mit geradezu lächerlichen Auszahlungen zufrieden geben. :-)
According to one in-depth investigation by NHK, the state broadcaster, a few yakuza gangs even operate their own stock-dealing floors, where millions of dollars of shares are traded every day.
Na, woran erinnert euch das? Mich erinnert das an die Goldman Sachs Privatbörse, nur nicht mit so viel Cash. So viel kriminelle Energie wie die dicken Investmentbanken haben die Mafiosi halt noch nicht aufgebaut :-)Oh und wie manipulieren sie den Markt?
Joshua Adelstein, an author and consultant on the yakuza, says that one of the key recent developments has been the emergence of mob-backed auditing firms. It is by getting these auditing firms to sign-off false company accounts, he said, that the yakuza were able to manipulate both the apparent earnings and stock prices of numerous small listed companies.
Über die Auditoren! Die Parallele im regulären kriminellen Finanzsektor sind die ganzen Ratingagenturen, die die ganze Zeit die windigen "Investmentvehikel" als grundsolide bewertet haben.