11.   Since then, four Nomura executives have been arrested for payments to Koike.

12.   The oil executive was arrested in Manila on Friday and put aboard a flight to Frankfurt, where French officials had expected to take him into custody.

13.   The saleswoman called the police the following morning, and they arrested the executive.

14.   The two executives were arrested in March.

15.   They arrested executives at Mitsubishi Motors and questioned others at Hitachi Ltd., the big electronics company.

16.   Three Mitsubishi Motors executives were arrested for suspected illegal payoffs, with two alleged extortionists also taken into custody.

17.   Three Nomura Securities Co. executives were arrested by Tokyo prosecutors for making payoffs to a corporate racketeer, the Asahi wire service reported.

18.   Three Mitsubishi Motors executives were arrested on charges of paying off gangsters.

19.   Today, in a symbolic break with that practice, prosecutors arrested four executives of Daiwa Securities.

20.   Tokyo prosecutors have arrested executives from both companies in relation to the allegations.