Sachiyo Nomura, the high-profile wife of ex-Hanshin Tigers manager Katsuya Nomura, was sentenced Wednesday to a suspended two-year prison term and fined 21 million yen for evading 213 million yen in taxes between 1997 and 2000.
The Tokyo District Court found the 70-year-old Nomura, a former TV celebrity, guilty of concealing 568 million yen in personal income she and her husband had earned, along with revenues from two firms she owns, in order to avoid income and corporate taxes.
The two companies owned by Nomura -- registered as an advertising firm and importer of foreign athletic goods -- were also ordered to pay a total of 32 million yen for corporate tax evasion.
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