J-Pop producer Tetsuya Komuro indicted for copyright fraud
Famed J-Pop producer Tetsuya Komuro, who mastered hits for Namie Amuro, has been indicted for swindling investors with sales of song copyrights that didn’t belong to him. Seriously.
Komuro has admitted to the charges, telling investigators that he was desperately in need of money to pay back loans, investigative sources said.
He was also quoted as saying, “I thank the victim for giving me the opportunity to look back on my life,” and, “I became ‘the emperor with no clothes’ while I earned a lot of money and led a lavish life.”
The prosecutors also indicted Takashi Kimura, 56, a senior official of a Tokyo-based entertainment agency in which Komuro is involved as a board member, over the fraud case.
They arrested another senior official, 45, together with Komuro and Kimura, on Nov. 4, but decided not to indict him as he did not gain profits in the case.
Investigations showed that Komuro allegedly concluded the contract in August 2006 with an investor from Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, to sell 806 tunes for 1 billion yen.
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