A former employee of consumer loan company Takefuji Corp. was sentenced Friday to a suspended three-year prison term for wiretapping two journalists in 2000 and 2001.
It is the first ruling to be handed down in connection with the wiretapping scandal.
The Tokyo District Court handed down the ruling against Kazuhiro Nakagawa, 43, a former customer service representative.
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