OSAKA -- Police served a former civil engineering contractor in Tokyo with a fresh arrest warrant Saturday on suspicion of cheating major trading house Nichimen Corp. out of some 330 million yen.
Tangonosuke Goto, 66, former president of the failed civil engineering firm, is suspected of fabricating an order from a major machinery maker in Tokyo and having Nichimen issue promissory notes for some 330 million yen for the subcontracted construction work in October 1996 and September 1997, the police said.
Goto has denied the allegation, they said.
He was indicted Friday on charges of deceiving Nichimen out of 280 million yen in June 1997 in a similar way.