Patent official held for taking bribes

Patent official held for taking bribes
Tokyo police arrested a Japan Patent Office official Tuesday for allegedly accepting bribes from a systems developer at an NTT Corp. group company in exchange for providing bidding information on the agency’s computer systems development program. Choichiro Shima, a 45-year-old senior examiner at the patent office, accepted the bribes from Ryotaro Oki, 45, an official of NTT Data Corp., a systems …