On the 26th, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors’ Office Special Investigation Division decided not to indict a total of 65 people, including former Chief Cabinet Secretary and House of Representatives member Matsuno Hirokazu, former House of Representatives member and former Chairman of the National Affairs Committee Takagi Takeshi, and their secretaries, who were accused of violating the Political Funds Control Act in connection with a Liberal Democratic Party faction’s political fund-raising party slush fund scandal. A total of 18 members and former members of the Diet were involved, of which three current members and two former members admitted to the crimes but were given a deferred indictment, meaning that indictment was not instituted at their discretion. There is a possibility that a request for review will be made to the Prosecutor’s Review Board in the future. Of the 16 former lawmakers or former members of the Abe faction who were not indicted, Matsuno, Takagi and others were deemed to have been insufficiently charged, while three current House of Representatives members, Yana Kazuo, Seki Yoshihiro and Miyamoto Shuji, as well as two former House of Representatives members, Sugaya Ichirō and Eto Seijirō, were given deferred prosecution. In addition, 16 other people, including secretaries and accounting officers of related political organizations, were also given deferred prosecution. (The following is the paid version, 319 characters remaining) Mainichi Shimbun 2024/12/26 22:59 (last updated 12/26 23:00).
>>1 The essence of the problem with the Abe faction’s kickbacks is that the accounting officer 20 years ago misunderstood that factions could also spend policy activity expenses that were originally only available to the party headquarters, and over the course of those 20 years this has become a custom. This is just a clerical error that is often made by opposition parties, and can be fixed with a correction to the political funding report.
I will never forgive the Liberal Democratic Party and the Ministry of Finance. Next year will be like that. And I won’t forgive the American dog, the Special Investigation Unit, either.
Takemura Kenichi: “When the media relentlessly reports entertainment news or scandals day after day, night after night, be careful. There are always things going on behind the scenes that they don’t want the public to know about. That’s when you need to look closely at the newspaper and find the truth in the tiniest of articles.”
The fact that TV never criticizes the top prosecutor is proof that a high-ranking network has already been established. That’s why there are people who do shady part-time jobs.
Political corruption is not about politicians taking bribes; that is simply the corruption of individual politicians. Political corruption occurs when politicians take bribes and go unpunished. Yang Wenli.
Because political funds are tax-exempt, the only thing that can be prosecuted is making false income and expenditure reports. So the blame falls on the person responsible for preparing the documents (the old man), simple matter.
What kind of crime is that, when it’s just a simple omission? (lol) It might be in violation of the Political Funds Control Act, but that can be easily corrected.
There are so many people who don’t realize that the money they raise at parties is just being used again for politics. If you use it for your personal life, it would be considered embezzlement, you know?
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