Man served fresh warrant over murder and robbery in Osaka Prefecture
- Hge News
- Feb 24
- 2 min read
Japanese police on Sunday issued a fresh arrest warrant for a man for alleged murder and robbery in connection with a case in which the dismembered body of a man was found abandoned in Osaka Prefecture recently.
The suspect, Hiroto Oki, 28, has remained silent over the murder and robbery allegations, according to the Osaka Prefectural Police Department.
After his first arrest on Feb. 3 for allegedly abandoning the body of Takamichi Kamioka, however, Oki told the police that he choked Kamioka to death after the victim came out of his house, investigative sources said. The suspect also said that he had no money so he therefore had no choice but to kill Kamioka, an employee of the Land, Infrastructure Transport and Tourism Ministry, according to the sources.
Oki is suspected of strangling Kamioka, 52, at the victim's house in Osaka, and robbing him of about ¥50,000 in cash and items including his cash card around 4 p.m. on Dec. 27.
Oki has so far said that he killed Kamioka and removed his clothes, and then dismembered his body, placed the body parts in bags and packed them into a suitcase. Kamioka's severed head was put in a thermal bag, the suspect said.
On the night of Dec. 28, Oki is believed to have traveled to the city of Higashiosaka by train and abandoned the body parts other than the head in a mountain area there and then returned to the city of Osaka and left the head in an abandoned apartment in the city's Chuo Ward.
In January, Oki withdrew cash at automated teller machines in the city of Osaka and the nearby city of Kyoto using Kamioka's cash card and repaid his debts to financial institutions with the stolen money. Oki had had outstanding debts totaling about ¥2 million.
Kamioka's body, from which the head and limbs had been separated, was discovered in the mountain area in Higashiosaka on Jan. 25.
On Sunday, the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office withheld a decision on whether to indict Oki for the suspected abandonment of the victim's body.
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