Senior land ministry official nabbed for suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - Watched by TV camera crews and news photographers, agents from the Sapporo District Prosecutors Office investigating a bid-rigging case involving a senior official of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry carry away boxes of documents after a search for incriminating evidence at the ministry's Hokkaido Bureau in Tokyo on June 16. Mamoru Shinagawa, 58, who heads the Hokkaido bureau, is suspected of playing a leading role in collusion to award the contract for the public works project to a specific contractor between 2005 and 2007. (Kyodo)

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