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Shigeta's web of investments have also linked him
- albeit unknowingly - to organised crime.
Hikari Tsushin was a leading investor in Liquid Audio,
whose president - a former associate of the Yamaguchi gumi crime syndicate
- was arrested last month on charges of kidnapping a business rival.