China News Service, April 18. According to Japan's "Asahi Shimbun", on the 18th, the second-instance verdict of Japan's "Moriyou Gakuen" case was announced in the Osaka High Court, and the decision to maintain the first-instance sentence for the former chairman of Moriyou Gakuen Taidian Kageike As a result of the 5-year sentence, the sentence of his wife's cage Chi Zhuzi was changed from 3 years to 2 years and 6 months.
Data map: Cage Chi Taidian and his wife.
Image source: Screenshot of Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" report
In 2017, Moriyou Gakuen was exposed by the media that it obtained state-owned land with an estimated value of nearly 1 billion yen at a price of 100 million yen for the construction of a primary school, and Abe Akie, wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, also served as the honorary principal of the primary school. .
After further investigation, it was found that dozens of people from the Ministry of Finance participated in the tampering and destruction of relevant approval documents.
Abe stressed that he and his wife had nothing to do with the matter.
In July 2017, Rong Chi and his wife were arrested by the Special Investigation Department of the Osaka District Prosecutor's Office and released on bail in May 2018.
On March 6, 2019, the Osaka District Court held the first public trial of the "Moriyou Gakuen" case. As the defendants, the Long Chi couple denied most of the indicted content.
On October 30, 2019, the prosecution accused the Lung Chi couple of fraud and other crimes, and hoped that the court would sentence the two to 7 years in prison.
On February 19, 2020, the results of the first trial of the "Moriyou Gakuen" case were announced in the Osaka District Court that Taidian Rongchi was sentenced to 5 years in prison, and his wife Yuko Cagechi was sentenced to 3 years in prison, suspended for 5 years.