Ex-Tokyo medical school chancellor faces new warrant for payments.

Former Tokyo Women's Medical University chancellor Kinuko Iwamoto faces a new arrest warrant over fraudulent consulting fees totaling ¥170 million.

Kinuko Iwamoto, former chancellor of Tokyo Women's Medical University, just got hit with another arrest warrant over some serious fraudulent consulting fees. This 78-year-old is suspected of making the university cough up around ¥170 million between March 2020 and September 2021, for fees that should have only been about ¥14 million for a new building project tied to the Adachi Medical Center. They paid a 68-year-old architect a hefty ¥184 million, but the police think about ¥50 million of that went straight to Iwamoto’s pocket.

This isn’t her first rodeo; back in January, she was arrested for another breach of trust, accused of funneling around ¥37 million to herself from ¥117 million of fake payments for work that never happened. Now, they’re tracking down this money trail because the total skimmed off could be around ¥87 million. Wild, right?

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