Suzuki faces arrest over lumber bribe
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14/06/2002
Public prosecutors may question senior lawmaker Muneo Suzuki next week on allegations he received 5 million yen in bribes from a Hokkaido lumber firm when he was deputy chief Cabinet secretary in 1998, and seek his arrest, law enforcement sources said. The Forestry Agency punished an executive of the company Yamarin in June 1998 for cutting down trees in a national forest without permission, barring it from taking part in public works bidding for seven months.