Trouble For Free-Will

Koichi Kaku, a former official of Asatsu-DK Inc., a advertising agency based in Tokyo, was recently arrested, along with two other people, for fraud. Hiroshi Tomioka (also known as Tommy Dynamite), president of Free-Will music production, and Kazunori Murasaki, a former Free-Will official, were the other two involved in cheating the agency out of 324 million yen (about $2.4 million) in 2001. The three associates covered themselves by passing the funds off as those required for producing videos for artists such as Dir en grey, but instead, outsourced the projects to subcontractors.

It is unclear how exactly these events may or may not affect bands such as Dir en grey, RENTRER EN SOI, and others affiliated with Free-Will and its sub-labels.