Japan and Switzerland may agree next week to nearly halve the 61 million francs Swiss authorities seized from a bank account linked to a Japanese loan shark network, negotiators said Thursday. Read the full story . . . ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Fri, Apr 18 2008
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