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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-GAMBLING-SCAM SUSPECTS-CAMBODIA (CN)

(240413) -- WUHAN, April 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gambling and scam suspects escorted by Chinese police officers are pictured on a chartered flight to China, April 13, 2024. Two police-chartered civilian flights brought back 130 gambling and scam suspects from Cambodia earlier on Saturday. This marks the first lot of suspects repatriated from Cambodia this year as Chinese and Cambodian police launched joint operations to crack down on crimes associated with gambling and swindling. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-GAMBLING-SCAM SUSPECTS-CAMBODIA (CN)

(240413) -- WUHAN, April 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gambling and scam suspects are escorted by Chinese police officers at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, April 13, 2024. Two police-chartered civilian flights brought back 130 gambling and scam suspects from Cambodia earlier on Saturday. This marks the first lot of suspects repatriated from Cambodia this year as Chinese and Cambodian police launched joint operations to crack down on crimes associated with gambling and swindling. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-GAMBLING-SCAM SUSPECTS-CAMBODIA (CN)

(240413) -- WUHAN, April 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gambling and scam suspects are escorted by Chinese police officers at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, April 13, 2024. Two police-chartered civilian flights brought back 130 gambling and scam suspects from Cambodia earlier on Saturday. This marks the first lot of suspects repatriated from Cambodia this year as Chinese and Cambodian police launched joint operations to crack down on crimes associated with gambling and swindling. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-GAMBLING-SCAM SUSPECTS-CAMBODIA (CN)

(240413) -- WUHAN, April 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gambling and scam suspects escorted by Chinese police officers are pictured on a chartered flight to China, April 13, 2024. Two police-chartered civilian flights brought back 130 gambling and scam suspects from Cambodia earlier on Saturday. This marks the first lot of suspects repatriated from Cambodia this year as Chinese and Cambodian police launched joint operations to crack down on crimes associated with gambling and swindling. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-GAMBLING-SCAM SUSPECTS-CAMBODIA (CN)

(240413) -- WUHAN, April 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gambling and scam suspects are escorted by Chinese police officers at the Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 13, 2024. Two police-chartered civilian flights brought back 130 gambling and scam suspects from Cambodia earlier on Saturday. This marks the first lot of suspects repatriated from Cambodia this year as Chinese and Cambodian police launched joint operations to crack down on crimes associated with gambling and swindling. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-GAMBLING-SCAM SUSPECTS-CAMBODIA (CN)

(240413) -- WUHAN, April 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gambling and scam suspects are escorted by Chinese police officers at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, April 13, 2024. Two police-chartered civilian flights brought back 130 gambling and scam suspects from Cambodia earlier on Saturday. This marks the first lot of suspects repatriated from Cambodia this year as Chinese and Cambodian police launched joint operations to crack down on crimes associated with gambling and swindling. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-GAMBLING-SCAM SUSPECTS-CAMBODIA (CN)

(240413) -- WUHAN, April 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gambling and scam suspects are escorted by Chinese police officers at the Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 13, 2024. Two police-chartered civilian flights brought back 130 gambling and scam suspects from Cambodia earlier on Saturday. This marks the first lot of suspects repatriated from Cambodia this year as Chinese and Cambodian police launched joint operations to crack down on crimes associated with gambling and swindling. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-GAMBLING-SCAM SUSPECTS-CAMBODIA (CN)

(240413) -- WUHAN, April 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gambling and scam suspects are escorted by Chinese police officers at the Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 13, 2024. Two police-chartered civilian flights brought back 130 gambling and scam suspects from Cambodia earlier on Saturday. This marks the first lot of suspects repatriated from Cambodia this year as Chinese and Cambodian police launched joint operations to crack down on crimes associated with gambling and swindling. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-GAMBLING-SCAM SUSPECTS-CAMBODIA (CN)

(240413) -- WUHAN, April 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Gambling and scam suspects escorted by Chinese police officers are pictured on a chartered flight to China, April 13, 2024. Two police-chartered civilian flights brought back 130 gambling and scam suspects from Cambodia earlier on Saturday. This marks the first lot of suspects repatriated from Cambodia this year as Chinese and Cambodian police launched joint operations to crack down on crimes associated with gambling and swindling. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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Firms raided for pyramid marketing over cyberspace

SAITAMA, Japan - Police officers enter the headquarters of Internet service firm Biz International in Saitama City for a search operation on May 27, 2010. Police raided locations linked with the firm on suspicion of swindling consumers through a pyramid scheme involving its virtual Xing World.

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Police officer, girlfriend nabbed for fraud of 500,000 yen

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Saito, director of police administration at the Aichi Prefectural Police Department, bows in apology at a news conference in Nagoya on March 11 after an Aichi assistant police inspector and his girlfriend were arrested on suspicion of swindling a woman in Nagoya out of 500,000 yen under the guise of solving her personal troubles last year.

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7 arrested for fraud over bracelets touted as improving blood flow

CHIBA, Japan - Three types of metal bracelet which a Tokyo health appliances company allegedly sold by claiming they help blood flow have no health benefits, police say. Chiba police on Nov. 6 arrested Minoru Kajimoto, the company's president, and six former employees on suspicion of swindling 18 people out of 6.8 million yen by selling them the bracelets. The police believe the company took in some 2.45 billion yen by selling the bracelets to roughly 8,200 people in 40 prefectures from January 2004 to April this year. The bracelets in the photo were shown to the media at the Kamagaya police station in Chiba Prefecture on Nov. 6.

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7 gangsters arrested over scam involving valueless paintings

TOKYO, Japan - Police arrested a senior gangster and six other gang members on Jan. 10 on suspicion of swindling money by selling valueless paintings (photographed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department) which they falsely claimed could be leased to hotels and other establishments. The suspects allegedly deceived the victims by claiming that they could obtain large fees from hotels and other establishments by leasing the works.

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(2)Ex-meat packer chairman gets 7 years in prison on beef fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Prosecutors walk into the Osaka District Court on May 27 to attend the trial of Mitsuru Asada, former chairman of meat packer Hannan Corp., who was indicted for swindling the government out of more than 5 billion yen by abusing a state beef buyback program established to calm concerns over mad cow disease. The court sentenced Asada to seven years in prison.

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Foreign Ministry officials dismissed over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Iimura (C), along with other officials, apologizes on Aug. 6 while announcing the dismissal of two ministry officials following their indictment in the day on charges of swindling the state out of about 22 million yen in public funds by padding bills related to last year's Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa.

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Ex-diplomat pleads guilty to fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors walk into the Tokyo District Court on July 31 to attend the trial of Katsutoshi Matsuo, a former Foreign Ministry logistics chief, who is charged with fraud. Matsuo pleaded guilty to swindling the state out of 161 million yen in secret funds while in charge of helping coordinate overseas trips by Japanese prime ministers between 1997 and 1999.

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Foreign Ministry, limo firm officials arrested

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shigeo Uetake (L), Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Kawashima (C) and Yutaka Iimura, director of the Foreign Ministry's Secretariat, apologize at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo July 16, after police arrested two ministry officials and two executives of a Tokyo-based limousine rental firm on suspicion of swindling the state out of 22 million yen by padding bills related to the Group of Eight (G-8) Okinawa summit last year.

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Police obtain warrants for 2 Foreign Ministry officials

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters flock the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district July 16 as police obtained arrest warrants for two ministry officials and two senior officials of a Tokyo car-hire company the same day. The officials are suspected of swindling the state out of about 12 million yen by padding bills for limousines hired for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa last summer.

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Foreign Minister Kono speaks on Matsuo's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono speaks before reporters at the Foreign Ministry on March 10 on the arrest of former logistics chief Katsutoshi Matsuo on suspicion of fraud by swindling the government out of 42 million yen in secret state funds since 1997. Matsuo, 55, received a total of 988 million yen from the Cabinet Secretariat's discretionary funds for diplomatic activities and allegedly pocketed the 42 million yen by padding expenses such as hotel bills for premiers' overseas trips, police said.

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Court orders Ho-no-Hana to pay damages

FUKUOKA, Japan - Katsushige Koga (C), lawyer for the plaintiffs in a law suit against the Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo religious group, speaks at a news conference April 28 after a court ordered the group and its founder Hogen Fukunaga to pay 27 people 227.2 million yen in damages for swindling them of money in the name of ascetic practice fees.

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Headquarters of Ho-no-Hana religious group

FUJI, Japan - File photo shows the headquarters of the Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo religious group, located in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture. A district court ordered the group and its founder Hogen Fukunaga April 28 to pay 27 people 227.2 million yen in damages for swindling them of money in the name of ascetic practice fees.

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(1)Ex-meat packer chairman gets 7 years in prison on beef fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsuru Asada (file photo), former chairman of meat packer Hannan Corp., was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Osaka District Court on May 27 for swindling the government out of more than 5 billion yen by abusing a state beef buyback program established to calm concerns over mad cow disease. (yodo)

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(2)Ex-meat packer chairman gets 7 years in prison on beef fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Prosecutors walk into the Osaka District Court on May 27 to attend the trial of Mitsuru Asada, former chairman of meat packer Hannan Corp., who was indicted for swindling the government out of more than 5 billion yen by abusing a state beef buyback program established to calm concerns over mad cow disease. The court sentenced Asada to seven years in prison. (Kyodo)

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Ex-diplomat pleads guilty to fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors walk into the Tokyo District Court on July 31 to attend the trial of Katsutoshi Matsuo, a former Foreign Ministry logistics chief, who is charged with fraud. Matsuo pleaded guilty to swindling the state out of 161 million yen in secret funds while in charge of helping coordinate overseas trips by Japanese prime ministers between 1997 and 1999.

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"Crying politician" to attend court hearing

People stand in line to draw tickets for the first court hearing of former Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member Ryutaro Nonomura at the Kobe District Court on Jan. 26, 2016. Nonomura, indicted for swindling about 9.13 million yen in funds that are provided to assembly members for their research activities by falsely claiming he had made one-day business trips, is known for bursting into tears during a press conference over the scandal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Crying politician" to attend court hearing

People stand in line to draw tickets for the first court hearing of former Hyogo Prefectural Assembly member Ryutaro Nonomura at the Kobe District Court on Jan. 26, 2016. Nonomura, indicted for swindling about 9.13 million yen in funds that are provided to assembly members for their research activities by falsely claiming he had made one-day business trips, is known for bursting into tears during a press conference over the scandal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of bill-collection agency held for fraud

KATO, Japan - Takeyasu Tsuji (C), former chairman of the Nippon Jusei Hoken Kiko bill-collection agency, leaves his house in Kato, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 25 for voluntary police questioning. He was later arrested on suspicion of fraud for allegedly swindling about 200 million yen from the company's business partner. (Kyodo)

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Ex-intelligence chief found guilty of fraud, but avoids prison

TOKYO, Japan - Shigetake Ogata, former director general of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, arrives at the Tokyo District Court in Tokyo on July 16 to hear the court's ruling on him. The court sentenced Ogata to two years and 10 months in prison, suspended for five years, finding him guilty of fraud for swindling the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) out of their headquarters building and premises plus cash. (Kyodo)

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Disgraced J-pop producer-icon Komuro faces suspended prison term

OSAKA, Japan - Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro speaks at a news conference in Osaka on May 11 after he was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years, by the Osaka District Court for swindling an investor out of 500 million yen in 2006 by attempting to sell copyrights for songs he no longer owned. (Kyodo)

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Disgraced J-pop producer-icon Komuro faces suspended prison term

OSAKA, Japan - Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro bows in apology at the outset of a press conference in Osaka on May 11 after he was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years, by the Osaka District Court for swindling an investor out of 500 million yen in 2006 by attempting to sell copyrights for songs he no longer owned. (Kyodo)

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Disgraced J-pop producer-icon Komuro faces suspended prison term

OSAKA, Japan - Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro bows in apology at the outset of a press conference in Osaka on May 11 after he was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years, by the Osaka District Court for swindling an investor out of 500 million yen in 2006 by attempting to sell copyrights for songs he no longer owned. (Kyodo)

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Disgraced J-pop producer-icon Komuro faces suspended prison term

OSAKA, Japan - Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro speaks at a news conference in Osaka on May 11 after he was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years, by the Osaka District Court for swindling an investor out of 500 million yen in 2006 by attempting to sell copyrights for songs he no longer owned. (Kyodo)

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Disgraced J-pop producer-icon Komuro faces suspended prison term

OSAKA, Japan - Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro arrives at the Osaka District Court in Osaka on May 11 to hear the court's ruling on him. The court sentenced him to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for swindling an investor out of 500 million yen in 2006 by attempting to sell copyrights for songs he no longer owned. (Kyodo)

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Disgraced J-pop producer-icon Komuro faces suspended prison term

OSAKA, Japan - Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro arrives at the Osaka District Court in Osaka on May 11 to hear the court's ruling on him. The court sentenced him to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for swindling an investor out of 500 million yen in 2006 by attempting to sell copyrights for songs he no longer owned. (Kyodo)

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Disgraced J-pop producer-icon Komuro faces suspended prison term

OSAKA, Japan - Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro arrives at the Osaka District Court in Osaka on May 11 to hear the court's ruling on him. The court sentenced him to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for swindling an investor out of 500 million yen in 2006 by attempting to sell copyrights for songs he no longer owned. (Kyodo)

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5-year jail term sought for music producer Komuro over fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro leaves the Osaka District Court in Osaka by car on April 23 after prosecutors sought five years of imprisonment. Komuro has pleaded guilty to swindling an investor out of 500 million yen in 2006. (Kyodo)

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Music producer Komuro pays 648 mil. yen to fraud victim

OSAKA, Japan - Pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro, who was charged for swindling 500 million yen by concluding a contract to sell music copyrights that he did not own, leaves the Osaka District Court in Osaka by car on March 12 after the second hearing of his trial. (Kyodo)

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Police officer, girlfriend nabbed for fraud of 500,000 yen

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroshi Saito, director of police administration at the Aichi Prefectural Police Department, bows in apology at a news conference in Nagoya on March 11 after an Aichi assistant police inspector and his girlfriend were arrested on suspicion of swindling a woman in Nagoya out of 500,000 yen under the guise of solving her personal troubles last year. (Kyodo)

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7 arrested for fraud over bracelets touted as improving blood fl

CHIBA, Japan - Three types of metal bracelet which a Tokyo health appliances company allegedly sold by claiming they help blood flow have no health benefits, police say. Chiba police on Nov. 6 arrested Minoru Kajimoto, the company's president, and six former employees on suspicion of swindling 18 people out of 6.8 million yen by selling them the bracelets. The police believe the company took in some 2.45 billion yen by selling the bracelets to roughly 8,200 people in 40 prefectures from January 2004 to April this year. The bracelets in the photo were shown to the media at the Kamagaya police station in Chiba Prefecture on Nov. 6. (Kyodo)

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Komuro indicted over copyright fraud

OSAKA, Japan - Famed pop music producer Tetsuya Komuro bows after he was released from the Osaka detention house on 30 million yen bail on Nov. 21. Prosecutors charged him with fraud for concluding a contract to sell music copyrights that did not belong to him and swindling an investor out of 500 million yen. (Kyodo)

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7 gangsters arrested over scam involving valueless paintings

TOKYO, Japan - Police arrested a senior gangster and six other gang members on Jan. 10 on suspicion of swindling money by selling valueless paintings (photographed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department) which they falsely claimed could be leased to hotels and other establishments. The suspects allegedly deceived the victims by claiming that they could obtain large fees from hotels and other establishments by leasing the works. (Kyodo)

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7 arrested for fraud over bracelets touted as improving blood fl

CHIBA, Japan - Three types of metal bracelet which a Tokyo health appliances company allegedly sold by claiming they help blood flow have no health benefits, police say. Chiba police on Nov. 6 arrested Minoru Kajimoto, the company's president, and six former employees on suspicion of swindling 18 people out of 6.8 million yen by selling them the bracelets. The police believe the company took in some 2.45 billion yen by selling the bracelets to roughly 8,200 people in 40 prefectures from January 2004 to April this year. The bracelets in the photo were shown to the media at the Kamagaya police station in Chiba Prefecture on Nov. 6. (Kyodo)

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Firms raided for pyramid marketing over cyberspace

SAITAMA, Japan - Police officers enter the headquarters of Internet service firm Biz International in Saitama City for a search operation on May 27, 2010. Police raided locations linked with the firm on suspicion of swindling consumers through a pyramid scheme involving its virtual Xing World. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Shokuhin ex-chief admits false labeling

FUKUOKA, Japan - Shigehito Atoyama, former president of Nippon Shokuhin Co., enters the Fukuoka District Court in Fukuoka on Jan. 16 for the first hearing of his trial over the false labeling of beef. Atoyama and two other former executives of the meat processor pleaded guilty to swindling a government-commissioned industry body by falsely labeling about 122 tons of imported beef as domestic. (Kyodo)

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Foreign Ministry officials dismissed over fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Yutaka Iimura (C), along with other officials, apologizes on Aug. 6 while announcing the dismissal of two ministry officials following their indictment in the day on charges of swindling the state out of about 22 million yen in public funds by padding bills related to last year's Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa.

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Police obtain warrants for 2 Foreign Ministry officials

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters flock the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki district July 16 as police obtained arrest warrants for two ministry officials and two senior officials of a Tokyo car-hire company the same day. The officials are suspected of swindling the state out of about 12 million yen by padding bills for limousines hired for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit in Okinawa last summer.

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Swindler Tomobe gets longest-ever jail term for lawmaker

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors member Tatsuo Tomobe (file photo) faces 10 years in prison, the heaviest punishment ever imposed on a lawmaker, after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal in a 1994-1996 swindling case. The Tokyo High Court last Dec. 20 ruled that Tomobe swindled 660 million yen, in a conspiracy with relatives, from 35 people in connection with management of a mutual aid society from 1994 to 1996. Tomobe, 72, elected in 1995, will also lose his upper house seat.

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Hayashi gets jail term for swindling insurance firms

WAKAYAMA, Japan - File photo shows Kenji Hayashi, who was sentenced Oct. 20 to six years in prison for swindling insurance firms out of 160 million yen. Hayashi, the husband of a woman accused in the 1998 curry-poisoning murders in Wakayama Prefecture, was found guilty of fraud by falsely claiming insurance payments for accidents that he and his wife Masumi allegedly suffered.

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Headquarters of Ho-no-Hana religious group

FUJI, Japan - File photo shows the headquarters of the Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo religious group, located in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture. A district court ordered the group and its founder Hogen Fukunaga April 28 to pay 27 people 227.2 million yen in damages for swindling them of money in the name of ascetic practice fees.

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Court orders Ho-no-Hana to pay damages

FUKUOKA, Japan - Katsushige Koga (C), lawyer for the plaintiffs in a law suit against the Ho-no-Hana Sampogyo religious group, speaks at a news conference April 28 after a court ordered the group and its founder Hogen Fukunaga to pay 27 people 227.2 million yen in damages for swindling them of money in the name of ascetic practice fees.