According to an interview with an investigative official, it is suspected that the mayor before being arrested in the government-manufactured negotiation case in Taketomi Town, Okinawa Prefecture, had received about 10 million yen in cash from the vendor who leaked the bid information in advance. got it.
Police are planning to re-arrest the former mayor on suspicion of weighted bribery on the 6th.
In May, the former mayor of Taketomi-cho, Takashun Nishidai (74), bid for the construction of an undersea water pipe that sends water from Ishigaki Island to Taketomi-cho, which was ordered by the town. He was arrested on the 13th of last month on suspicion of violating the Government-made Conflict Prevention Law, alleging that he had leaked it in advance.
In addition, five major plant maker employees and subcontractors have also been arrested on suspicion of obstructing auction bids for bidding based on information from the former mayor.
According to the investigators, it was newly discovered from the seized materials that there was a suspicion that the former town mayor had been given about 10 million yen in cash from the trader two years before the information leak.
Police are planning to re-arrest on the 6th on suspicion of weighted bribery on the assumption that the former mayor leaked information in return for receiving cash.
The trader has already established the statute of limitations.
After being arrested, the former mayor submitted a resignation request to the parliament and resigned on the 4th.