FUKUOKA, JAPAN, Oct 12: A 49-year-old former senior Japanese police officer today pleaded guilty to taking bribes from two gangsters in exchange for leaking investigative information to them.
Toshio Nakamura, a former assistant police inspector at the Fukuoka prefectural police department, entered the guilty plea during the first hearing of his trial at the Fukuoka District Court.
Nakamura is accused of taking about 100,000 yen in bribes from the two gangsters in Fukuoka on March 20 in exchange for leaking investigative information over a blackmail case.
The two gangsters are accused of sending the bribes to Nakamura.
Nakamura also pleaded guilty to violating the local public service law for allegedly leaking investigative information to a Fukuoka-based underworld syndicate on a stimulant case that he investigated as a chief investigator, and for breaching confidentiality as a local public servant.
The police arrested Nakamura in July on suspicion of bribery. (AGENCIES)
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