Morteza Farhadi, Japanese gangland hit?

Body of an Iranian man was found Friday in the front passenger seat of a burnt car parked on a road in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, police said. The deceased was identified as Morteza Farhadi, a 46-year-old Iranian national residing in Morteza Farhadi He was found with multiple stab wounds to his chest and abdomen, police said the owner of the car, which had a Nagoya license plate, told police that the car had been forfeited as a payment for debts. A 26-year-old male resident nearby, who called an ambulance, said, ‘‘The car’s horn sounded at around 1:50 a.m. and continued blaring, and when I went to look, it was engulfed in flames.’’