NAGOYA -- An ex-police officer convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for leaking information on investigations has appealed his prison sentence.
Toshikazu Kurimoto, 32, a former senior officer with the Aichi Prefectural Police, has filed an appeal with the Nagoya High Court against the 22-month prison sentence that the Nagoya District Court handed down on him on Thursday.
Kurimoto was convicted of receiving a total of 813,000 yen in bribes from a former casino manager and a Chinese temporary work agency between September 2006 and last January.
In return, he provided them with confidential information on investigations, including the date of a planned raid on a Philippine pub over the hiring of illegal workers, thereby helping them evade arrest, the lower court found.
Mainichi
October 20, 2007
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