Japan's Nagoya District Court has sentenced five ex-employees of five major construction companies to suspended prison terms for antitrust violations in a series of rigged bids for the Nagoya subway extension projects. Masahiro Shibata, 71, a former adviser to Obayashi Corp's Nagoya branch, was sentenced to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for co-ordinating the bid rigging. The four others at Kajima, Shimizu, Okumura and Maeda each received 18 months, suspended for three years, for conspiracy.
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