In a trial in which a member of the House of Representatives Akimoto was charged with bribery and the acquisition of witnesses, the decision was handed down on September 7.
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 a bribe from a Chinese company and for acquiring witnesses for trying to give cash to the bribery side. Asked and insisted on innocence.
The defense, who was asked by the accused on the 17th, also recorded the history recorded in the mobile phone application about the behavior of the day when he received a bribe of 3 million yen in cash at the parliamentary hall in 2017. He insisted that he did not stop at the parliamentary hall.
In addition, Takaki Shirasuka, a member of the House of Representatives, testified in a witness cross-examination last month that he was "apparently an visit to entertain Akimoto" about the trip to Macau invited by the bribery side. I have been suspicious of the incident and have a grudge against me, "he argued that the testimony was a lie.
The accused's question ended on the 17th, and the presiding judge announced that he would make a prosecution's argument on July 8 and a closing argument on the defense side on 20th, and hand down the judgment on September 7.