Tsukasa Akimoto, a member of the House of Representatives who was sentenced to prison for bribery and acquisition of witnesses on the 7th over entering the IR / integrated resort facility business, complained at a press conference that "it is a judgment with a conclusion and I can not accept it at all". rice field.
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 total of about 7.5 million yen worth of bribes from Chinese companies and others, and lied to the bribery side in court. He was acquitted of buying witnesses for asking him to testify and trying to give him cash, but the Tokyo District Court sentenced him to four years in prison on the 7th.
Senator Akimoto, who was released on the night of the judgment, held a meeting on the 9th.
In this, Senator Akimoto said, "I believed that the court would find out that it was a conviction case made by the prosecution, but the decision was based on vague testimony on the part of the bribery side. I have to say that it was commonplace, and I can't accept it at all. "
After that, he said, "I would like the Tokyo High Court to look at the evidence with a fresh head and make a decision."
Also, regarding the court's decision on the crime of acquiring witnesses, "there is no minimum legal spirit," he said, "I have not asked for false testimony, and I think it is different if it is called legal spirit. I criticized it.