Yasuo Takei
Organization founder
1930 – 2006
Who was Yasuo Takei?
Yasuo Takei, was the founder and former chairman of Takefuji, Japan's number one consumer finance group.
On 17 November 2004 he was given a three year suspended sentence 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 - he possessed an estimated net worth of US$5.6 billion.
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