Lawmaker let gangster-linked firm pay secretaries

Lawmaker let gangster-linked firm pay secretaries

TOKYO, Japan - House of Representatives member Kenshiro Matsunami is surrounded by reporters in the Diet on April 15 following a revelation that he allowed a construction firm that had links to gangsters pay 2.75 million yen in salaries to his secretaries between March 1997 and February 1998.

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