Police raid Kubota over unlawful payment to racketeers

OSAKA, Japan - Police officers walk into the head office of Kubota Corp., a major farm machinery maker, in Osaka on June 15 for investigation on suspicion it paid as much as 350 million yen in cash to two corporate racketeers under the pretext of billboard advertising.

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