Arrested Akimoto tried to make it easier with the number of IR maintenance areas January 19, 19:34

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A February member of the House of Representatives, Akimoto, arrested in a case involving corruption involving an IR / integrated resort facility, was discussing the number of IRs to be maintained in the country. It is better to be flexible without writing the number of areas. " Just before that, Mr. Akimoto had been requested by a bribery Chinese company aiming to enter the IR to increase the number of maintenance areas, and the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Special Investigation Division was suspected of trying to facilitate bribery in return. I'm looking into it.

Mr. Akimoto, 48, a member of the lower house of the Diet, who was the deputy minister of the Cabinet Office in charge of IR and other matters, received a bribe of 3 million yen in cash from a Chinese company aiming to enter the IR, and in February he went to Hokkaido in February. He has been invited to a family trip to Rusutsu-mura and received about 700,000 yen worth of profits, and is suspected of bribery.

According to stakeholders, at the time of this trip, the number of IRs to be developed in Japan was being discussed, and Chinese companies aiming to enter IR in Hokkaido and Okinawa requested Representative Akimoto to increase the number of maintenance areas. It was that.

Immediately after the trip, Representative Akimoto told the secretary of the Secretariat of the Cabinet Secretariat who was in charge of the IR maintenance bill, saying, "It is better to make the bill flexible without writing the number of IR maintenance areas specifically." I was able to find out what I was telling by interviewing related parties.

The working team's discussions on submitting the bill began in March, the following month, when the LDP claimed that the number of IR maintenance areas was "at least four to five," while gambling addiction measures were addressed. The Komeito party, which emphasizes on, argued that it should be limited to two or three places.

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Investigation Division has been examining the details of the investigation, considering that Mr. Akimoto, the deputy minister in charge, was suspected of trying to make it easier for Chinese companies to enter the IR.

According to lawyers, Akimoto has completely denied the charges.