-------- Original Message -------- Subject: JPO Commissioner named in bribery/slush fund scandal Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:14:53 -0400 From: Alan aengel@paterra.com To: epo@mlist.austria.eu.net, PIUG-L@derwent.co.uk
The August 4 issue of the Asahi Shimbun reports that JPO Commissioner Ogawa has been named in a growing METI slush fund scandal relating to contracts for external studies and reports. The article reports that Ogawa received 715,000 yen from the slush fund in November 1996. Ogawa checked into a local hospital immediately after the slush fund scandal broke.
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