A total of 109 current and former Fukui prefectural officials received money and other gifts, some worth up to ¥200,000, from a former Takahama deputy mayor who is at the heart of a gift scandal involving Kansai Electric Power Co., an investigative committee said Thursday.

The committee set up by the prefecture last month had been looking into whether Eiji Moriyama exercised influence over the prefecture's public works projects, after the late deputy mayor was found to have given massive gifts to executives of the utility.

The scandal involving Kansai Electric, the nation's second-largest utility firm, has drawn attention to the collusive ties between the country's nuclear industry and government officials.