Police raid Tokyo Sowa Bank

Police raid Tokyo Sowa Bank

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigators walk into the head office of the failed Tokyo Sowa Bank in Tokyo's Akasaka on May 11 on suspicion of cooking up a scheme to falsely show the bank had adequate capital reserves. The bank went bankrupt last June.

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