WHO-related group's ex-director interrogated on alleged embezzlement

KYOTO, Japan - Prosecutors search the office of the Japan WHO Association, a Kyoto-based nonprofit organization promoting the World Health Organization, on June 28 on suspicion that its former standing director had embezzled some 950,000 yen from the group.

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