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14-year jail sentenced in Aomori embezzlement case

AOMORI, Japan - A car carrying Yuji Chida charged with embezzlement arrives at the Aomori District Court on Dec. 12. Chida was sentenced to a 14-year prison term for embezzling 1.45 billion yen from a public housing corporation in Aomori Prefecture. He confessed to giving about 1.1 billion yen of the embezzled money to his 29-year-old Chilean wife, Anita Alvarado, and her relatives.

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Aomori housing firm files charge against Chilean woman

AOMORI, Japan - Shinichi Tokumi (R), board chairman of Aomori Prefectural Housing Supply Public Corp., announces in Aomori on Aug. 6 that the corporation has filed a criminal charge in Chile against Anita Ester Alvarado Munoz, Chilean wife of Yuji Chida, formerly in charge of accounting at the corporation, to reclaim some of the money Chida allegedly embezzled from it.

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Wife of ex-Aomori exec says she will keep embezzled money

SANTIAGO, Chile - Anita Ester Alvarado Munoz, wife of Yuji Chida, who has admitted to embezzling 1.42 billion yen from Aomori Prefectural Housing Supply Public Corp., meets the press in her restaurant in Santiago on Dec. 20. Alvarado said she has no intention of returning the money her husband gave her. Chida, who was accounting manager of the housing corporation, is suspected of having sent some 500 million yen to Alvarado, whom he met in Aomori in 1997.

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Aomori embezzlement scam big news in Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile - The Gethsemane Hospital and Dental Clinic in a posh Santiago residential area is reportedly owned by the wife of Yuji Chida, a former accounting executive of Aomori Prefectural Housing Supply Public Corp. The hospital was allegedly financed by money embezzled by her husband from the firm in a scandal that made big headlines in local newspapers on Dec. 18.

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Ex-Aomori housing executive arrested for embezzlement

AOMORI, Japan - File photo shows Yuji Chida, a former accounting executive of Aomori Prefectural Housing Supply Public Corp. who was arrested in Tokyo Dec. 17 on suspicion of embezzling 1.42 billion yen from the housing authority. The Aomori prefectural police will begin questioning Chida Dec. 18 over the allegations.

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Wife of ex-Aomori exec says she will keep embezzled money

SANTIAGO, Chile - Anita Ester Alvarado Munoz, wife of Yuji Chida, who has admitted to embezzling 1.42 billion yen from Aomori Prefectural Housing Supply Public Corp., meets the press in her restaurant in Santiago on Dec. 20. Alvarado said she has no intention of returning the money her husband gave her. Chida, who was accounting manager of the housing corporation, is suspected of having sent some 500 million yen to Alvarado, whom he met in Aomori in 1997.

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Ex-Aomori official pleads guilty to embezzling 1.4 bil. yen

AOMORI, Japan - Yuji Chida (C), a former accounting manager of the Aomori Prefectural Housing Supply Public Corp., leaves Aomori Police Station on Feb. 28 for the Aomori District Court. Chida, charged with embezzling 1.44 billion yen between 1995 and October 2001, pleaded guilty at the first hearing of his trial.

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14-year jail sentenced in Aomori embezzlement case

AOMORI, Japan - A car carrying Yuji Chida charged with embezzlement arrives at the Aomori District Court on Dec. 12. Chida was sentenced to a 14-year prison term for embezzling 1.45 billion yen from a public housing corporation in Aomori Prefecture. He confessed to giving about 1.1 billion yen of the embezzled money to his 29-year-old Chilean wife, Anita Alvarado, and her relatives. (Kyodo)

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Aomori man ordered to repay embezzled 1.45 bil. yen

AOMORI, Japan - The Aomori District Court on Oct. 8 ordered Yuji Chida (file photo), a former accountant at Aomori Prefectural Housing Supply Public Corp. in Aomori Prefecture, to pay back more than 1.45 billion yen to the corporation that he had embezzled from it. (Kyodo)

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Aomori housing firm files charge against Chilean woman

AOMORI, Japan - Shinichi Tokumi (R), board chairman of Aomori Prefectural Housing Supply Public Corp., announces in Aomori on Aug. 6 that the corporation has filed a criminal charge in Chile against Anita Ester Alvarado Munoz, Chilean wife of Yuji Chida, formerly in charge of accounting at the corporation, to reclaim some of the money Chida allegedly embezzled from it. (Kyodo)