The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has reprimanded six officials in connection with a bribery scandal involving an agricultural cooperative from Kagawa Prefecture, a ministry official said Saturday.
The six had allegedly been taking bribes from the Shikoku Okawa agricultural co-op in the form of free entertainment and golf games over the past five years, the official said.
The ministry has been conducting an in-house investigation over allegations of bribery after an elite ministry official was arrested and indicted in a bribery scandal involving the co-op.