Raid over suspected bid rigging

Raid over suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - Investigators head to the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency's Tokyo branch in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2014. Tokyo prosecutors and the Japan Fair Trade Commission raided the Tokyo branch over alleged bid rigging in the production of snow-melting equipment for the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line, investigative sources said.

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