Tsukasa Akimoto, a member of the House of Representatives who has been acquitted on charges of bribery and acquisition of witnesses over the business of IR / integrated resort facilities, has been released on bail again by the Tokyo High Court, dismissing the prosecution's appeal against bail I made a decision to admit.
Representative Akimoto is expected to be released on bail soon.
Tsukasa Akimoto, a 49-year-old member of the House of Representatives who was the deputy minister of the Cabinet Office in charge of IR, was acquitted of bribery for receiving bribes from Chinese companies, etc. He has been charged with taking over witnesses and has been acquitted.
A lawyer was seeking bail, but the Tokyo District Court decided on the 7th to grant bail, and Representative Akimoto paid the full amount of bail of 80 million yen.
The prosecution appealed the bail decision, but the Tokyo High Court rejected it and granted bail again, and Akimoto is expected to be released from Tokyo Detention House soon.
Senator Akimoto was arrested on suspicion of bribery in December, and was released on bail in February last year after being charged with a bail of 30 million yen.
However, he was arrested again in August last year on suspicion of acquiring witnesses and his bail was revoked, after which he was detained for more than nine months.
The court has ruled that most of the witness cross-examinations have been completed and the risk of destruction of evidence has diminished, and is believed to have granted bail.
In the accused question that began on the 1st of this month, Akimoto insisted that he was not guilty of not having met the bribery side and did not receive cash. I am.