11. More than a half dozen banks have folded due to political interference and questionable loans. 12. Several finance company executives, including former Commerce Minister Narongchai Akrasanee, have surrendered or are wanted by police for violating finance laws in extending questionable loans. 13. Tetsuya Horie, president of the Long-Term Credit Bank, denied before Parliament in March that his bank was involved in questionable loans. 14. The latest case accused Di Pietro of accepting a questionable loan from a businessman and helping secure the job of a former Milan police chief, Eleuterio Rea. 15. The questionable loans allegedly were made in September. 16. Toshio Yamaguchi, a former labor minister, left the opposition New Frontier Party in February after allegations that his relatives received questionable loans from the two credit unions. 17. A complicating factor could emerge, however, with opposition demands to get LDP secretary general Koichi Kato to testify in parliament about a questionable loan. 18. A former head of a failed housing loan firm was indicted Wednesday along with his four aides on charges of questionable loans to a golf course developer. 19. The opposition party is also trying to nail Kato to testify in parliament over his role in receiving a questionable loan. 20. The opposition party wants Kato to testify in parliament over his alleged links to questionable loans from a jusen-related company. |
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