PCI, former execs indicted for ODA project bribes to Vietnam official
27/Aug/2008 Intellasia | The Japan Times
Aug 27, 2008 - 7:00:00 AM
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Consulting firm Pacific Consultants International and four of its former officials were indicted Monday on charges of giving about Japanese yen 90 million in bribes to a Vietnamese official in connection with a Japanese official aid project.
The defendants, including former PCI President Masayoshi Taga, 62, were charged with bribing a senior HCM City official in 2003 and 2006 in connection with a highway construction project there in violation of Japan's Unfair Competition Prevention Law.
It is the first time that prosecutors have sought a trial rather than a summary procedure over a bribery case involving a foreign official since a 1998 legal revision that made such bribes illegal.
The four defendants are Taga, Kunio Takasu, 65, a former PCI managing director, Haruo Sakashita, a 62-year-old former executive, and Tsuneo Sakano, 59, a former head of PCI's Hanoi office.
According to the indictment, Tokyo-based PCI won orders totalling Japanese yen 3.1 billion in 2001 and 2003 for consultancy services related to a highway construction project executed by the HCM City government and financed by Japanese official development assistance.
In December 2003, Takasu and others gave US$600,000 to the Vietnamese official for helping PCI win the contract. The four also handed US$220,000 to the official in August 2006.
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