IR Corruption Case "Multi-Commercial Law" Former representative of the company Gave a testimony request or August 5 4:45

One of the company officers arrested for requesting bribery to testify for a lie in a corruption case involving a member of the House of Representatives Akimoto indicted about IR/integrated resort facilities, three years ago It turns out that he was a former representative director of a company in Sapporo City, which received a partial suspension order from the Consumer Affairs Agency. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office is expected to elucidate the actual situation regarding whether there is contact with Representative Akimoto.

Three corporate officers in Tokyo, Akito Awaji (54) and Fumihiko Sato (50), bribed Brigadier Akimoto (48), a member of the House of Representatives, in a corruption case involving IR and integrated resort facilities. Asked two former advisers of a Chinese company on the bribery side, who had acknowledged that they had given it, to give witness testimony in a trial, and tried to give cash of 30 million yen and millions of yen, respectively. , I was arrested on the 4th on suspicion of acquisition of witnesses.

According to the person concerned, of these, Awaji officer was serving as the representative director of "48 Holdings" in Sapporo City, which sold its own virtual currency = crypto assets under the so-called multi-commercial law until last year, and this company 3 years ago , It was said that it had received a partial suspension order from the Consumer Affairs Agency for three months, alleging that it violated the Specified Commercial Transactions Law.

Sato is still a director of this company.

According to the people involved, the two former advisers on the bribery side are saying to the surroundings, "I didn't receive the cash, but I was asked to overturn the affidavit at the trial."

The Tokusou Department is expected to clarify the facts about the contact points between Representative Akimoto and the three arrested.

Awaji suspects and "multi-commercial law" company

Akito Awaji, a corporate officer who was arrested, was the representative director of "48 Holdings" headquartered in Sapporo until last year.

This company sold its own virtual currency = crypto assets called "Clover coin" by the so-called MLM, but in 2017 three years ago, the future value was not fixed, but "If you buy before publication It was said that the act that I was going to raise such as "10 times the price increase" violates the Specified Commercial Transactions Law, and the Consumer Affairs Agency ordered me to suspend operations such as solicitation and contracts for 3 months.

Fumihiko Sato, who was arrested together, also took office as director of the company in January.