Gov't orders AIJ to suspend business

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi announces in a press conference at the Diet building in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2012, that the ministry has ordered corporate pension fund manager AIJ Investment Advisors Co. to suspend its business for one month on suspicion that it has lost most of its clients' money, totaling about 210 billion yen.

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