Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ryuho Kato, who belongs to the Abe faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, released a comment on the 31st, stating that he had not recorded 100,000 yen of income in his political organization's income and expenditure report. announced that he had submitted his resignation.
In a comment, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Kato said that it was discovered in January that he had not recorded 100,000 yen in income received from a faction in his political group's income and expenditure report, and added, ``At the time, ``I was not aware that there would be a refund because I had received instructions from Chairman Abe to suspend refunds from the faction for the amount that exceeded the quota.''
``In order to meet the quota, we asked many organizations and individuals to donate party tickets, and as a result, sales were 100,000 yen more than the quota.Originally, it was recorded as a ``donation'' in the political funds income and expenditure report. ``Today, I amended my political organization's income and expenditure report in line with the correction of the Seiwa Policy Research Group's political funds income and expenditure report for the money that I had to record.''
Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Kato then said, ``Although it was my lack of knowledge and experience, I would like to apologize once again for following the instructions of the faction and not being able to handle the matter properly, which led to political distrust.'' , has decided to resign from his position as Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Cabinet Office and Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Reconstruction, and has submitted his resignation.