Japanese construction firm Fujita sanctioned for accepting public official’s help on land restoration bids
By Sachiko Sakamaki ( June 14, 2018, 10:11 GMT | Insight) -- Japanese construction company Fujita Corp was today handed a corrective order by the country's competition watchdog for having accepted special assistance from an official at the farm ministry, which ordered farmland restoration projects following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The regulator found that a Fujita executive who had been a senior official at the ministry had asked a former ministry colleague to improve Fujita’s bids for the projects, as a result of which the firm had beaten competitors to win two tenders.Japanese construction company Fujita Corp was today handed a corrective order by the country's competition watchdog for having accepted special assistance from an official at the farm ministry, which ordered farmland restoration projects following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. ...
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