Ex-head of Nomura gets suspended jail term

Hideo Sakamaki (C), former president of Nomura Securities Co., was sentenced Jan. 20 by the Tokyo District Court to a one-year prison term, suspended for three years, for illegal payoffs to a ''sokaiya'' corporate racketeer. Sakamaki, seen entering the court building, paid some 370 million yen to Ryuichi Koike in 1995 in exchange for not disrupting the company's shareholders meeting, according to the ruling. ==Kyodo

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