Watanabe and Yamaguchi’s lawyer returned to his office after making arrangements to meet with the “Defendants” the following day so that he could gain whatever further information or documents were required or necessary, and prepare a proper defence. Little did he realise what the “Defendants” had planned during their joint freedom whilst on court bail, leading to the fact that the lawyer would never see them again. Not only had they planned their escape from justice but they had made contact with another of their accomplices, a person by the name of Neil Francis Keenan, an Irish American who Yamaguchi had known for some time.
PHOTOGRAPH OF YAMAGUCHI AND KEENAN IN A HOTEL ROOM WITH VARIOUS FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS LAID OUT BEFORE THEM:
Yamaguchi explained to Keenan, on a telephone call which was probably made from outside the Hotel, that they had been arrested at Chiasso and had ultimately been charged with serious crimes related to the Financial Instruments they were carrying. Yamaguchi also explained that they were on bail but had no intention of staying around for the actual court hearing. Keenan, very nervous and feeling that the telephone conversation with Yamaguchi may have been “Tapped”, got very scared after that conversation and started to plan his own escape from being arrested and ending up like Yamaguchi and Watanabe.
The “Defendants”, Yamaguchi and Watanabe, having agreed to meet with the lawyer the following day, had no intention to keep that appointment. It could be said that they had, whilst waiting for the indictment hearing and the interrogation, planned their escape from justice.
There was no way that Akihiko Yamaguchi was going to spend more time in the confines of a prison cell, but more on that later. Did they care about Alessandro Santi and what he had to face, obviously not, but that is how people like Yamaguchi and Watanabe work, playing on the ignorance of law and fact, and naivety of the subject they were involved with, along with their own selfishness and survival.
Neither did they have any intention of informing the lawyer of this fact, pretending that they would return to their hotel somewhere in Como, Italy, to stay for the night and meet with the lawyer in his office the following day.
Instead, after having a short break in a local Coffee Shop, returned to the hotel to collect their luggage and check out, immediately proceeding to the train station and purchasing tickets for the next train to Milan, a mere 42 kilometres away from Como and a maximum of 45 minutes train ride. When in Milan, the “Defendants” quickly booked their flights through to Rome and out of Italy through to Bangkok, Thailand and then onwards to Okinawa, Japan. So quick in fact that it was a well planned escape operation and no one would know that they had left Italy that evening, until of course, their failure to turn up the following morning to attend the appointment with their Court appointed lawyer. The escape plan from Italy being well planned and executed was completely different to the initial plan to carry Financial Instruments, carried in a hidden compartment of Yamaguchi’s briefcase, across the Italian – Switzerland border at Chiasso, which proved to be a total failure and not well planned at all. Whether this was an “Off the Cuff” reaction based upon their nervousness and desperation to evade justice, or, well planned in advance doesn’t present much of a question whereby an “Off the Cuff” reaction is the most probable.
None of the above is mentioned in any of the Police or Court documents as to which flight route Watanabe and Yamaguchi took on leaving Italy, but such information becomes irrelevant because their objective was clearly to leave the confines of the national borders of Italy as quickly as they could, and in any way possible, just to avoid justice. However, investigations through the immigration department in Bangkok, Thailand and Manila, Philippines, have Yamaguchi and Watanabe arriving on an Emirates Air flight (4th July) from Dubai. Then, Twenty Seven (27) days later leaving Bangkok on a Air Nippon flight (August 3rd) to Okinawa, Japan, and then sometime later through to Tokyo, Japan. Yamaguchi and Watanabe obviously spent Five (5) days in Dubai, a relatively safe place from Italian Law and discarding their nervousness.
What the above does indicate is that the whole process doesn’t say much for the thoroughness of the Italian Financial Crime Police, the Public Prosecutors Office, or the Crime Investigation Department appointed by the Public Prosecutors Office, or the Italian courts as both Yamaguchi and Watanabe should have incurred a “Red Notice of Blocking from Departure” at all Immigration / Emigration points at airports and sea ports to restrain the “Defendants” from leaving and evading justice, should any attempt be made to leave Italy by the “Defendants” prior to at least the date of the confirmed interrogation, being 30th June 2009.
Having escaped justice, which the lawyer was unaware of until the “Defendants” had failed to turn up at his office for their appointment, the lawyer, in his own “I’m not surprised” manner, immediately informed the Court and the Crime Investigation Department by facsimile message, that the “Defendants” would not be present for the interrogation as they had already fled Italy and assumed to be on their way back to Japan. To their dismay, annoyance, and plainly a little humiliation to say the least, the Crime Investigation Department began checking all the transport systems (Railways and Airports), finally, with the assistance of the Italian Home Office – International Police Cooperation Service (Interpol) by the “Commando Generale” (General Command), they were informed by the Interpol Service of Tokyo, that the “Defendants” had arrived on the Japanese Island of Okinawa on August 3rd 2009.
It took Watanabe and Yamaguchi Thirty Five (35) days in total to arrive in Japan. Obviously, a disjointed flight route taken by them, considering the fact that a direct flight from Italy to Japan would be approximately 12 hours in total. Then the disjointed route factor should be taken into account including the relatively short stays in Dubai and Bangkok. The question now has to be asked as to why they spent 27 days in Bangkok, which is One (1) day short of the usual Visa on Arrival of Twenty Eight (28) days; instead of travelling through to Okinawa, Japan or Tokyo, Japan, within a few days after arriving in Bangkok. There are several well known criminal operatives in Bangkok dealing with such Financial Instruments similar to what Yamaguchi and Watanabe were carrying in Yamaguchi’s briefcase. One of those persons is Wilfredo Saurin, a well known crook who wrongly claims he is the son of the Sultan of Sulu, but has never proven it to anyone. He does work however for the crooked Federal Reserve in New York and is apparently a protected person, although not a Diplomat. Such situations are not uncommon as this type of person is working strictly for their masters, whereby to maintain protection at all costs, they will do as they are instructed to do.
Sulu itself used to be part of the Sultanate of Mindanao – North Borneo – and Sulu whereby the link here is that most of the Certificates / Bonds of the type carried by Yamaguchi and Watanabe were printed in the Philippines by the Americans in 1932/33/34 and then secreted away in purpose built Bunkers in Mindanao and a small amount of Bunkers in other parts of the Philippines.
It is also known that Keith Francis Scott, former Chief of the Cabinet for Dr. Ray C. Dam, the first appointed International Treasury Controller; was a former close associate of Neil Francis Keenan, who is strongly connected to Yamaguchi, whose chief adviser was Keith Francis Scott, appointed by Yamaguchi following his departure from the OITC and Dr. Ray C. Dam in March 2008; were also loose associates of Wilfredo Saurin. All of them part of a pit of venomous snakes solely working for their own financial benefit.
The Interpol Service of Tokyo, having previously been informed, on the 22nd June 2009, by the International Police Cooperation Service (Interpol) in Italy that the “Defendants” were to appear in Court for Indictment on the 27th June 2009, which is a mandatory notification when Nationals from another country are involved; were immediately informed that the “Defendants” had prematurely left Italy without notice to the Court, or their lawyer in Como, Italy. The Interpol Service of Tokyo immediately notified all Japanese Immigration Authorities, together with copies of the “Defendant’s Passports provided by the International Police Cooperation Service (Interpol) in Italy, to be alert to the “Defendants” possible return to Japan, ordering their immediate arrest on arrival at any of the Japanese Immigration points.
Needless to say, upon their arrival at Okinawa Airport, Japan, on the 3rd August 2009, the “Defendants” were arrested and interrogated by the Japanese Police.