Prosecutors pursue Japanese MP
Prosecutors formally sought the arrest of a former Japanese construction minister on bribery charges, AP reports from Tokyo. Kishiro Nakamura is suspected of taking 10m yen (dollars 64,000) to pressure anti-monopoly officials to drop a bid-rigging complaint against a construction firm.
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