September 24, 2004
Owner of University Is Charged With Fraud
The owner of a private Japanese university was arrested this month and charged with making off with millions of dollars in government subsidies while his institution ran up such huge debts that it was reportedly close to shutting down.
The Japanese police detained Ichiro Hotta, chairman of Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University, on a criminal complaint filed by the education ministry, which contends that he had defrauded the national government out of $5.2-million in subsidies over a five-year
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