Police obtain warrants for 2 Foreign Ministry officials

Police obtain warrants for 2 Foreign Ministry officials

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters flock the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district July 16 as police obtained arrest warrants for two ministry officials and two senior officials of a Tokyo car-hire company the same day. The officials are suspected of swindling the state out of about 12 million yen by padding bills for limousines hired for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa last summer.

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