Racketeer Koike sentenced to 9 months in payoff scandal

Ryuichi Koike, ''sokaiya'' corporate racketeer, enters the Tokyo District Court on April 21 to receive a ruling on a charge that he received illegally 12.4 billion yen in payoffs from four securities firms and Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank. The court sentenced Koike to nine months in prison later in the day.

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