A 53-year-old doctor at the University of Tokyo Hospital was arrested Wednesday for allegedly taking about ¥700,000 in bribes from an official at a medical equipment company in return for using the firm's devices on a priority basis.
Arrested by Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department was Takehiro Matsubara, a doctor at the hospital's Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine.
The MPD also arrested Takayuki Suzuki, 41, the former head of a Tokyo sales office of the medical equipment maker, Japan Medical Dynamic Marketing, on suspicion of bribing Matsubara. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's top-tier Prime section.
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