IR Corruption Case Former Secretary “Reported to legislator as disguised as paid” February 19:11

A former policy secretary accompanied a member of the House of Representatives, Akimoto, on a trip to Macau and other places by an invitation of a bribery Chinese company in a corruption case involving an IR and integrated resort facility. He withdrew and pretended to have paid, and he reported it to Representative Akimoto. " The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office of Investigation is investigating that Representative Akimoto was aware that he had paid the travel expenses to Chinese companies.

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, three years ago in December 2017, when he visited Macau and other countries at the invitation of a bribery Chinese company. In addition to providing travel expenses equivalent to 1.5 million yen, a Chinese company received 2 million yen in September of the same year as a lecture fee for a symposium held in Naha city, last month, Was arrested again.

A former policy secretary, Akihiro Toyoshima (41), who was indicted at home as a complicity with Rep. Akimoto, told the Special Investigation Department that he had not paid for travel expenses for the Macau trip. They once withdrawn cash from the accounts of political organizations and pretended to have paid for their travel expenses, and reported it to Representative Akimoto, "said an interview with interested parties.

Former Secretary Toyoshima also stated that he had reported to the Representative Rep. Akimoto that the fee for the symposium was increased from the originally planned 500,000 yen to 2 million yen after he took office as Deputy Minister.

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office of the Special Investigation has been conducting investigations toward the three-day detention deadline, considering that Mr. Akimoto had received a report from a former secretary and was aware of the improper profit provision such as letting a Chinese company take over the travel expenses. You.

According to the people involved, Rep. Akimoto has completely denied the allegations and explained that the travel expenses were "instructed to pay a secretary and were perceived to have been paid."