TOKYO -- Nobuhisa Sagawa, who resigned as Japan's tax chief on March 9, likely knew of alterations to documents linked to a land sale at the center of a scandal embroiling the Japanese government, according to Mitsuru Ota, director general of the Finance Ministry's Financial Bureau.
At a diet committee meeting on Friday, Ota said he thought Sagawa, who was head of the Financial Bureau when the alterations took place, was aware that documents had been altered.
