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Top Japanese defence official to be sacked as bribery scandal widens
0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007
TOKYO (AFP) — Japan's Defence Ministry will dismiss a senior bureaucrat following revelations that he received money from a former vice defence minister already involved in a bribery scandal, media said Saturday.
The ministry will replace defence policy chief Nobuki Kawamura, 47, for having received a total of 45 million yen (405,000 dollars) from scandal-hit Takemasa Moriya, news reports said, quoting ministry officials.
"There has been a money flow that is hard to imagine normally," Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba was quoted as saying by Jiji Press and Kyodo News.
"The public will think: 'What is this?' So in that sense it is not desirable for (Kawamura) to remain in his current post," he was quoted as saying.
The ministry could not be reached for...
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