Police send papers on ex-Paloma execs to prosecutors

TOKYO, Japan - Police sent to prosecutors papers on former Paloma Industries Ltd. President Toshihiro Kobayashi (file photo) and two other people over the death of a university student of carbon monoxide poisoning in 2005 and the injury of his brother.

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