Four former office staff members of the Liberal Democratic Party's House of Representatives have been arrested for deceiving the country's sustainability benefits paid to businesses whose sales have declined due to the effects of the new coronavirus.
The man is believed to have used the title of an office staff to offer fraudulent payments, and police are investigating the details.
Four people were arrested, including a corporate officer in Nakamura Ward, Nagoya City, Hiroshi Kato (34).
According to police, in July last year, the four submitted data to the government over the national sustainability benefits, including data on a false tax return stating that their business income had dropped significantly even though they were not eligible to receive it. There is a suspicion of fraud for deceiving the yen.
Police have not disclosed the approval or disapproval of the four.
Kato was elected to the Aichi 1st district of the House of Representatives and served as an office staff member of the Liberal Democratic Party's Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Hiromichi Kumada until last fall.
According to the people concerned, around May last year, he held a seminar on sustainable benefits in Nagoya city under the name of an office staff and said, "There is a way out of receiving benefits."
The police are investigating the details.
Hiroshi Kato "I know the loophole using the position of the Liberal Democratic Party"
According to the people concerned, Kato was instructing how to receive the benefits at a seminar on sustainable benefits held in Nagoya City around May last year.
According to the voice data that recorded the contents of the seminar, a person who seems to be Kato said, "While the national homepage does not show how to be eligible for benefits or not to make gray zones gray zones, the position of the Liberal Democratic Party is I know the loophole by using it. "
Two former Aichi University students who were arrested last September and subsequently charged with being involved in the illegal receipt of sustainability benefits also participated in this seminar.
Deputy Minister of General Affairs Kumada "Solemnly accept and cooperate fully with the investigation"
Through the office, Deputy Minister Kumada commented, "We take the news seriously. We will fully cooperate with the investigation."