Overview

• The referral covers the company’s president, three male employees aged 41–50, and the corporation under the Construction Business Act’s dual-penalty provision, with prosecutors to decide on indictment.
• Investigators allege the team accepted and began interior and exterior work at the Angola pavilion between mid-January and early February without national or prefectural approval.
• Searches in August targeted 12 locations, including the president’s home, and seized computers and roughly 235–240 work-related documents to examine how the contract was obtained.
• Osaka Prefecture had already imposed a 30-day business suspension in July after determining the firm took on projects without the necessary permit.
• Subcontractors report more than ¥100 million in unpaid bills tied to the company, and the Expo organizer says it has received similar nonpayment consultations from about ten other foreign pavilions.