2000
Dec.,18
Yuhuin Town held the bid for public construction of a radio system for disaster prevention
Dec.,20
Oki's Employees gave 3 million yen to the mayor of Yuhuin Town, Yoshimura, as a bribe
2003
Sept.,7
At the Oita South Police Office, Lieutenant Mikio Kojima, investigated Yoshio Gudon, an employee of Toshiba corp.
Gudon confessed that they rigged bids with Oki to give the right of taking this construction to Oki.
Sept.,17
Oita Prosecutors Office prosecuted the mayor for this bribery case.@
Sept., 29
At the Beppu Police Office, Lieutenant Tatsuya Etou, investigated the manager of public business department of Oki Network System Company , Hirosi Arinaga.
Arinaga confessed that they rigged bids with other companies to get this construction and gave a bribe to the mayor.
Oct.,3
At the Oita Central Police Office, Lieutenant Kiyoshi Inao, investigated the Vice-president of Oki' Kyushu Branch, Shigeru Nakajima.
Nakajima confessed that they did bid rigging with another companies to get this construction and gave a bribe to the mayor.
Oct.,4
At the Oita South Police Office, Lieutenant Koji Oshima, investigated the member of sales department of Oki , Masayoshi Otani
Otani confessed that they did bid rigging with another companies to get this construction and gave a bribe to the mayor.
Oct. 9
At the Oita South Police Office, Lieutenant Koji Oshima, investigated Akira Koyama, an employee of Hujitu corp.
Koyama confessed that they rigged bids with Oki to give the right of taking this construction to Oki.
Oct. 9
At the Oita South Police Office, Lieutenant Mikio Kojima, investigated Hidetaka Nagasako, an employee of Nihon Musen corp.
Nagasako confessed that they rigged bids with Oki to give the right of taking this construction to Oki.
Oct. 11
At the Oita South Police Office, Lieutenant Masayuki Tokieda, investigated Shigemi Nakahara, an employee of Hitachi International Electric corp.
Nakahara confessed that they rigged bids with Oki to give the right of taking this construction to Oki.
The document of the investigation.
The documents of the bid
2004
Mar.,3
Oita District Court gave a guilty judgment to Nakajima and Arinaga the sentence of imprisonment of 1 year 2 month, with the stay of 3 years for the bribery.
June., 29
Tanaka accused Oki of bribery at Oki's stock holders meeting.
Oki's answer was " The employees did that arbitrarily, we don't know."
Jul., 12
Tanaka asked The Oita Prosecutors Office to send him the investigation document of the bribery case. and got 2000pages of document and knew the bid rigging case.
Aug.. 24
Tanaka called the The Oita Prosecutors Office and asked to speak with the prosecutor.
But only administrators came out, and despite Tanaka asked repeatedly to speak to the prosecutors administrators refused that.
Oct.,24
Tanaka accused the bid rigging case to The Tokyo Metropolitan Police office with taking the documents as a evidence.
2005
Mar. 29
The Inspection Committee of Yuhuin Town admitted that the bid rigging was done by Oki.
The notification from The Inspection Committee of Yuhuin Town
Apr. 14
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police office dismissed the accusation.
The reason for the dismissal by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police office is that the statute of limitation was already up "around the autumn of 2003" in this case.
In their answer they said this case happened "around the autumn" of 2000.
But this bid was actually done on December 18th 2000.
No one says December is "around the autumn" in Japan, it is winter.
They intentionally said this time vaguely.
Investigation and Prosecution of the bribery case was held in Sept/Oct 2003.
The statute of limitation for the bid rigging case is 3 years.
Therefore, the police officers knew about the bid rigging because of the investigation of the bribery case at least 2 month, or more, before the time limit.
The notification from The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Office
Apr. 29
The citizens of Yuhuin Town took the town to the court, to ask for compensation damage from Oki.
2006
Dec. 21
The decision Oki guilty of bid rigging
2007
January. 6 @Oki appealed@News
2008
June. 19@Decision Fukuoka High Court@High Court ackunowleges the fact Oki commit bid rigging.
September.1@Oki appealed
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November. 17
The Supreme Court dismissed Oki's appeal @γόp@
The Supreme Court acknowledges the fact of bid rigging.
However , prosecutors ignore it and don't prosecute, even though this practices now.
Lets reform Japanese Police Prosecutor and Court