MGM Grand appears in the account of Susumu Kajiyama’s financial operations as both a Las Vegas gambling venue and the name behind a Tokyo office from which police seized $2 million. The two references connect an overseas casino to the movement and recovery of cash in Japan, making MGM Grand a concrete point in a wider investigation into Kajiyama’s money.

Las Vegas and Kajiyama’s Funds

Kajiyama reportedly lost a couple of million dollars gambling at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The account also describes a method for moving cash between countries: he spent considerable time in the United States, kept money in a safe-deposit box in Tokyo, and withdrew it when travelling to America. He was said to have overseas bank accounts as well. The narrative presents the Las Vegas losses alongside these financial arrangements, while leaving open whether the gambling itself should be understood as money laundering.

The Tokyo Office and Police Seizure

A contact at the FBI later confirmed that police had already made visits to Las Vegas and seized $2 million in cash from MGM Grand’s office in Tokyo. The confirmation mattered to the investigation because it independently supported information the narrator had received about Kajiyama’s funds; he then took the verified detail to his editors. The seizure places the Tokyo office, rather than only the Las Vegas casino floor, at the center of MGM Grand’s role in the account.

What the Seizure Did Not Resolve

The recovery did not account for all the money Kajiyama had deposited with U.S. casino offices in Tokyo. Around the time of his arrest, one of his associates arranged for a representative of Caesars Palace to deliver $1 million in cash to a central Tokyo parking lot. That separate delivery underscores the limits of the MGM Grand seizure: casino-linked cash remained distributed across other channels, and the investigation did not recover every sum associated with Kajiyama.