Chemical Company, the second-largest agricultural chemical distributor in the US, which Marubeni acquired from Bayer in 1987. Energy & Metals Group - Trades in oil, gas, nuclear fuel, iron, steel, and other metals and minerals. Power Business & Infrastructure Group - Develops power plants, environmental plants, marine projects, industrial plants and transport infrastructure. Projects include the Westermost Rough Wind Farm in the UK, FSRU and FPSO projects in South America, and operation of the G:link light rail in Australia. Transportation & Industrial Machinery, Financial Business Group - Trades in aircraft (Aircastle), ships, automobiles, and construction and industrial machinery. The Marubeni Aerospace Corporation is a major component of this group, making up part of the group's Aerospace & Ship Division. MAC was formed in 1998 when Marubeni acquired the trading rights and other assets of the former aerospace division of Okura & Co., Ltd. (Okura Aerospace Co., Ltd.) In 2000, Marubeni obtained UK based Automotive dealer group, the RRG Group. Notable people Minoru Arakawa worked in overseas real estate development at Marubeni during the 1970s prior to founding Nintendo of America in 1980. Yohei Kono, member of the House of Representatives and former Foreign Minister, worked at Marubeni from 1959 to 1967 before entering politics. Toshimitsu Motegi, member of the House of Representatives and former State Minister and minister of foreign affairs in the Shinzo Abe and Yoshihide Suga governments, worked at Marubeni before entering politics. Scandals and Incidents In the early 1970s Marubeni was accused of hoarding rice on the black market for profiteering purposes. In 1976, numerous Marubeni and All Nippon Airways executives were arrested in connection with the bribery of Japanese government officials to support the sales of Lockheed aircraft in Japan; the scandal also led to several suicides and the arrest of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. In 1986, Marubeni was found to have bribed Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos and several of his friends and associates in connection with Japanese ODA work in the Philippines. In January 2012, Marubeni Corporation agreed to pay a US$54.6 million criminal penalty to settle multiple US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges relating to its work as an agent for the TSKJ joint venture. The TSKJ joint venture comprising Technip, Snamprogetti Netherlands, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) and JGC Corporation hired Marubeni to bribe lower-level Nigerian government officials to help it achieve contracts to build LNG facilities on Bonny Island in Nigeria.