61.   Police in western Japan arrested a corporate racketeer Tuesday for allegedly blackmailing Daiwa Securities Co., a major Japanese brokerage, to compensate him for stock trading losses.

62.   Prosecutors arrested the former president of Nomura Securities Friday on charges of approving illegal payoffs to corporate racketeers.

63.   Prosecutors filed formal charges Monday against four former senior officials of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank accused of providing illegal loans to a corporate racketeer.

64.   Prosecutors Wednesday raided the head office of Yamaichi Securities Co., a major Japanese brokerage, in a widening scandal involving suspected payoffs to a corporate racketeer.

65.   Prosecutors said Thursday they have arrested four executives of a major commercial bank on suspicion they extended illegal loans to corporate racketeers.

66.   Separately, at a Tokyo District Court hearing Wednesday, two corporate racketeers pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illicit payoffs from Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Kyodo said.

67.   Shares in Japanese brokerages Daiwa and Nikko tumbled in the afternoon following reports that the two companies gave money to illegal accounts held by corporate racketeers.

68.   Shares in Japanese brokerages Daiwa and Nikko tumbled in the afternoon following reports that the two companies gave money to illegal discretionary accounts held by corporate racketeers.

69.   The commission is investigating a scandal involving payoffs by Nomura to a corporate racketeer.

70.   The former president of top brokerage Nomura Securities Co. and two former senior executives received suspended prison sentences Wednesday for making illegal payoffs to a corporate racketeer.