Governor Saito Motohiko’s election income report reveals traces of a cover-up, with missing details on PR company expenditures. Discover the controversy.
1★50 years of part-time experience.Dec. 5, 2024 (Thu) 18:49:04.10ID:cnbcYyWT9
The report from Governor Saito Motohiko’s campaign team does not include any mention of expenditures on the PR company at the center of the controversy. The university professor who filed criminal charges against Governor Saito and others points out that “there seems to be an intention to cover up.” According to Governor Saito’s report, income came to 21.3 million yen in donations from two organizations, including the political group “Saito Motohiko Support Group,” and expenses totaled approximately 23.7 million yen. The public portion of the expenditure was approximately 2.5 million yen, with the recipient being a printing company in Osaka Prefecture for the printing costs of posters and flyers. The issue is the accounting procedures for invoices and statements from “merchu,” a PR company based in Nishinomiya City, which were made public by Governor Saito’s lawyer at a press conference on the 27th of last month. The invoice listed the breakdown of expenses for five items: 1) Production of campaign pledge slides (300,000 yen), 2) Flyer design (150,000 yen), 3) Main visual planning and production (100,000 yen), 4) Poster design (50,000 yen), and 5) Election bulletin design (50,000 yen). The lawyer said he paid a total of 715,000 yen, including consumption tax, on the 4th of last month, after the gubernatorial election was announced, and emphasized that these were “expenses permitted by law.” On the other hand, the report records the four items excluding ① as advertising expenses. The tax inclusive amount will match the invoice. “Slide production is a political activity and does not fall under election campaigning, so it was excluded,” the lawyer explained. The payment date for both was the 4th of last month, but the payment was made to the Saito Motohiko Support Group, not merchu. It is true that the address on the invoice shown to the press and the name of the transfer requester on the statement were in the name of the support group, but why did Saito’s camp not pay the advertising fees directly to the PR company but instead go through the support group? It’s puzzling.
>>1 >”I sense an intention to cover up” This is a personal opinion and not a legal basis or evidence. “I feel…” That’s like a spiritualist scam lol. I feel sorry for the students if idiots like this are professors. AI lawyers will appear soon, so lawyers should consider changing jobs.
Wait? Didn’t they also divert loans to the bank that sponsored the victory parade in a similar way? It’s a loop of problems with power harassment, begging, and indirect loans.
And if the possibility or suspicion backfires, will they run away? This is why distrust of the old media still lingers It’s not even Saito’s problem anymore, the stupidity of the old media.
Since there has been such a big fuss, they must have taken proper measures and submitted a report, right? They must have had it checked twice or three times by a lawyer or tax accountant.
In the end, it was all nonsense that the rate of campaign promise achievement and the director’s unconsensual sexual intercourse both occurred spontaneously and spread on social media.
Since he’s from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, he was probably pushing in the very grey area, but Orita ended up scoring an own goal.
There’s been a fuss again about the presumption of innocence. Katayama Yoshihiro, Wakasa, and Gohara all stated their guilt. I’ll see if you change your mind.
Well, I think that there is no justice anywhere, regardless of what this Governor Saito did, as long as the government’s tax evasion is not criticized.
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