Tokyo tax authorities have filed charges with local prosecutors that a former head of a Japanese unit of U.S. pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson allegedly evaded about 60 million yen in income tax by concealing income linked to stock options, sources familiar with the case said Wednesday.

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