The leader of Tokyo Medical University has allegedly asked a senior education ministry official to give the school favorable treatment over the ministry’s university support program at the center of a bribery scandal, informed sources said Thursday.
The leader of Tokyo Medical University has allegedly asked a senior education ministry official to give the school favorable treatment over the ministry’s university support program at the center of a bribery scandal, informed sources said Thursday.
The ministry official, Futoshi Sano, 58, was arrested by public prosecutors on Wednesday on suspicion of accepting bribe in the form of having the university fraudulently enrolling his son in return for granting favorable treatment to the institution over the program.
