Osaka cram school manager arrested over fraud+

TOKYO, Jan. 22 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The manager of a cram school in Osaka was arrested Thursday on suspicion of defrauding parents of a medical school applicant of 70 million yen by telling them he could sell backdoor admissions to private medical schools, Osaka prosecutors said.

Shingo Okada, 40, and three others were arrested, the prosecutors said.

Okada is suspected of telling the parents of his cram school student between 2006 and 2007 that he could pay a medical school in Fukuoka Prefecture to inflate entrance exam scores, in an attempt to swindle them out of 9 million yen.

He also told them, along with the three, he could arrange for the student to pass the exam for another medical school in Iwate Prefecture and received 62 million yen in total on five occasions, according to the investigation.

Okada was quoted as telling the prosecutors he had difficulty raising management money for his cram school, according to them.

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