Foreign Ministry, limo firm officials arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L), Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima (C) and Yutaka Iimura, director of the Foreign Ministry's Secretariat, apologize at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo July 16, after police arrested two ministry officials and two executives of a Tokyo-based limousine rental firm on suspicion of swindling the state out of 22 million yen by padding bills related to the Group of Eight (G-8) Okinawa summit last year.

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