The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's office on Friday served former Construction Minister Eiichi Nakao with a new arrest warrant on suspicion of receiving 30 million yen in bribes from Wakachiku Construction Co. between June and September 1996.
Prosecutors also indicted Nakao, 70, on charges of receiving 30 million yen in bribes from the same firm in October the same year.
Nakao has denied any wrongdoing.