Tsukasa Akimoto, a member of the House of Representatives who has been acquitted of bribery and the acquisition of witnesses over the business of an integrated resort facility, was released on bail on the 7th and has been detained for more than 9 months. I left the Tokyo Detention House.
Tsukasa Akimoto, a 49-year-old member of the House of Representatives, left the Tokyo Detention Center in a green tie and a dark suit before 9 pm on the 7th, boarded a pick-up car with a lawyer, and left the detention center.
Akimoto, 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 is guilty and claims innocence.
While lawyers were seeking bail, the Tokyo District Court decided on the 7th to grant bail, and the Tokyo High Court dismissed the prosecution's appeal against this.
Representative Akimoto paid a bail of 80 million yen and was released on bail from the Tokyo Detention House, which had been detained for more than nine months tonight.
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However, he was arrested again last August on suspicion of acquiring witnesses and his bail was revoked, after which he was detained for more than nine months.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 a question asked by the accused, which began on the 1st of this month, Senator Akimoto has insisted that he was not guilty of not having met the bribery side and received cash, and the prosecution's question is scheduled from the 10th of this month. ..