China News Service, January 20. According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency, the political funding scandal of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party continues to ferment. On the 19th local time, the Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office prosecuted 8 people from the three major factions of Japan's ruling party.
According to the report, the total unrecorded amount of these three factions in the political fund income and expenditure report exceeds 1.7 billion yen (approximately RMB 82 million).
According to reports, the Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office has investigated Junichiro Matsumoto, the accounting chief of the "Abe faction", and Nagai, the former accounting chief of the "Nigeria faction" on suspicion of violating the "Political Funds Regulation Act" (false recording). A non-detention prosecution was carried out, and a summary prosecution was carried out against Kazuo Sasaki, the former accountant of the "Kishida faction".
In addition, a case was filed against five people, including members of Congress, who received high kickbacks from the "Abe faction."
Data map: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the media at his official residence, "This has damaged the people's trust in politics, which is extremely regrettable. As the president of the (Liberal Democratic) Party, I apologize."
According to Japanese media, the "Abe faction" and the "Nikai faction" did not record the portion exceeding the banquet ticket sales quota as income in the income and expenditure report, but returned it to the lawmakers.
Among them, Shuichi Umezawa, the chairman of the "Nikai Faction" and the secretary of Toshihiro Nikai, the former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, was summarily indicted. It is said that he did not hand over the approximately 35 million yen that exceeded the sales quota to the faction, and accumulated it on hand to form a "small business". Treasury” was falsely recorded in the income and expenditure report.
The report also quoted relevant sources as saying that the "Abe faction"'s "small treasury" involved in banquets reached 600 million yen in five years.
The Special Investigation Department believed that the Abe faction's practice of forming a "small treasury" was organized and egregious in nature, and launched a focused search.
In addition, the report stated that Sasaki, the former accounting chief of the "Kishida faction", underrecorded approximately 30 million yen in the income and expenditure reports over the past three years.