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Mayor arrested for allegedly defrauding city to pay for accident he caused

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Wednesday, November 11, 2026 at 4:05 AM · 1 min read
 Mayor arrested for allegedly defrauding city to pay for accident he caused  — Tokyo Government news

The mayor of Awa, Tokushima Prefecture, conspired with two others to inflate the costs of a city contract to include the repair costs, police said.

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