Yasuo Takei

Yasuo Takei (Japanese武 井 保 雄, Takei Yasuo, born January 4, 1930; † 10 August 2006) was a Japanese billionaire and founder of the company specialized in consumer loans Takefuji.

Biography

Takei started in 1966, the credit institution Fuji Shoji and renamed it in 1974 to take Fuji. Under his leadership, the company became the market leader for installment loans in Japan.

His reputation and the market value of his company suffered damage in the 1990s, when it became known that the company could recover outstanding loans at doubtful nature. Takei was sentenced in connection with the reporting of this practice in November 2004 on a three -year suspended sentence for illegal wiretapping and insult of journalists; He also was fined in the amount of $ 8,700. He had previously can listen to the phones of two free journalists who were critical articles about his company and released him. He also was found guilty of having employees of Take Fuji instructed to make offensive statements about one of the journalists on the company website. In the judgment Takei was also obliged to sell a majority stake in his company. He resigned from his CEO at Take Fuji, but still the company should have checked the phone. At his death he held and his family still below 25 % of Takefuji.

Takei died of liver failure. At the time of his death he was on the Forbes Magazine list of 2006, with total assets of an estimated $ 5.6 billion the second wealthiest man in Japan by Masayoshi Son.

Literature and links

  • Mariko Yasu, " Acom Net Falls 59% on Bad Loans; Take Fuji 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
  • "Take Fuji - credit pioneer Takei died," Handelsblatt 14 August, 2006
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