Police searched an office of Kajima Corp. and other locations Wednesday on suspicion the major contractor cheated the government out of roughly ¥4.7 million for work on the new runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport.
Kajima allegedly used 1,190 cu. meters of low-cost gravel for embankment work instead of the gravel approved by the government, according to a complaint filed with the police by the transport ministry.
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