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Crime › Procedures start to distribute money to loan-shark victims

Prosecutors began procedures Friday to distribute funds seized by Swiss authorities to people who have fallen victim to an illegal high-interest lending scheme run by… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Fri, Jul 25 2008

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