The Tokyo District Court on Thursday sentenced a former Japan Highway Public Corp. executive to a suspended 2 1/2-year prison term for accepting about 7.2 million yen in bribes in the form of wining and dining.
Takehiko Isaka, 55, who was a board director in charge of accounting at the semigovernmental corporation, was found guilty of giving special favors to seven leading financial institutions that entertained him on 113 occasions between 1994 and 1997.
Besides the sentence, which was suspended for three years, the court also fined Isaka 6.84 million yen and confiscated 21 items he received as gifts from the firms, including an electronic dictionary.