Ex-exec of hotel operator held over fraud

Ex-exec of hotel operator held over fraud

ATAMI, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 8, 2011, shows Atami Okamoto Hotel in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture. A former chairman of the hotel operator, Okamoto Hotel Systems, and two others were arrested the previous day on suspicion of defrauding elderly investors of their deposits by promising high returns on their resort club membership.

Pro-Pyongyang group's ex-exec held on breach of trust

Pro-Pyongyang group's ex-exec held on breach of trust

TOKYO, Japan - Li Bom Rak (R), former chairman of the Korean Credit Unions' Association in Japan, leaves his home in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on Dec. 5 with investigators for questioning. Li was arrested later in the day on suspicion of financially damaging Chogin Kinki Credit Cooperative, which collapsed in December last year.

Tokyo Olympic ex-exec faces fresh bribery charge

Prosecutors on Tuesday served a fresh arrest warrant on Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive already embroiled in suspected corruption cases, for allegedly accepting bribes totaling 76 million yen ($54,000) from major publisher Kadokawa Corp. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office also arrested former Kadokawa executive Toshiyuki Yoshihara, 64, and another person for allegedly bribing Takahashi, 78, as well as Kazumasa Fukami, 73, who heads a consulting firm, for allegedly receiving bribes from the publisher. The prosecutors also searched the home of the publisher's chairman, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, over the case. The move comes after the prosecutors searched on Monday the offices of Daiko Advertising Inc., including its Osaka headquarters and branch in Tokyo, on suspicion of bribery.

Pro-Pyongyang group's ex-exec held on breach of trust

Pro-Pyongyang group's ex-exec held on breach of trust

TOKYO, Japan - Li Bom Rak (R), former chairman of the Korean Credit Unions' Association in Japan, leaves his home in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on Dec. 5 with investigators for questioning. Li was arrested later in the day on suspicion of financially damaging Chogin Kinki Credit Cooperative, which collapsed in December last year.

Ex-exec of hotel operator held over fraud

Ex-exec of hotel operator held over fraud

ATAMI, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 8, 2011, shows Atami Okamoto Hotel in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture. A former chairman of the hotel operator, Okamoto Hotel Systems, and two others were arrested the previous day on suspicion of defrauding elderly investors of their deposits by promising high returns on their resort club membership. (Kyodo)

Ex-exec of Narita airport operator arrested

Ex-exec of Narita airport operator arrested

Investigators raid Narita International Airport Corp., near Tokyo, on July 5, 2017, as a 64-year-old former executive of the airport operator was arrested on suspicion of receiving a bribe from a transport agency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-exec of Narita airport operator to be arrested

Ex-exec of Narita airport operator to be arrested

File photo taken in May 2013 shows Narita airport near Tokyo. It was reported on July 5, 2017 that police will arrest a 64-year-old former executive of Narita International Airport Corp., the operator of the airport, on suspicion of receiving a bribe from a transport agency. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo