Mitsuro Ozaki, a lawmaker's former secretary arrested in connection with three bid-rigging cases, allegedly failed to declare part of 90 million yen in payments as taxable income, sources close to the case said Saturday.
Ozaki, 56, an executive with Tokyo consulting firm Gyosai Toshi Kaihatsu Kenkyujo, allegedly received 30 million yen in 1998 from a former executive of a major airline company as commissions for mediating a sale of land in Tokyo, but failed to declare several million yen as taxable income, the sources said.
He also allegedly received 60 million yen from the president of a Tokyo company as a reward for suppressing protests from a rightist group around 1996, they said.
The former secretary to House of Representatives member Michihiko Kano, former deputy head of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, was arrested in January and February and was indicted on suspicion of being involved in bid-rigging cases in Ibaraki Prefecture. Kano quit the DPJ in early February after the arrest of Ozaki.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau are investigating Ozaki's company on suspicion of tax evasion.