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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the Budget Committee of Japan’s House of Councilors in March and reveals his stance on the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics due to the spread of Corona 19. Tokyo = AP Yonhap News
The suspicion that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called local residents to a luxury hotel in Tokyo each spring to provide entertainment, and the likelihood that the investigation of the “ cherry blossom scandal ” will end in the line where the body is left and only the tail is cut. to have.
According to Asahi Shimbun on the 4th, the Tokyo District Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating the case, brought the charges against the first secretary and office employees of former Prime Minister Abe for violating the Political Fund Regulation Act (not included in the list). A summary of the indictment was initiated. A summary prosecution is a procedure in which a prosecutor asks a court to face a fine at the same time as the prosecution. For this reason, the suspect is not subject to formal trial.
From 2013 to last year, after the start of the second power of office, the former prime minister’s side presented greetings from the local district of Yamaguchi prefecture in line with the “ Sakura Gyoen ”, a spring event held celebrated every April in “ Shinjuku Gyoen ”, a park in the city of Tokyo. He was invited to a luxury hotel in Tokyo and it was held the day before. The money paid by the participants in the event was around 5,000 yen, but it was revealed that it was less than half the lowest cost of the event (11,000 yen per person) advertised by the hotel, and former Prime Minister Abe made up for the difference. Suspicions arose in November last year that specifications related to political funds were not adequately reported.
As a result, more than 900 lawyers and jurists charged former Prime Minister Abe and others with violating the Public Officials Election Act (donation) and the Political Fund Regulation Act (no status), and the Tokyo District Attorney’s Office was took over the investigation.
It is reported that the first secretary and the staff of the office admitted the illegality in the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office, but stated that they did not write it in their opinion. The first secretary is the representative of Shinzo Abe’s Support Committee, who organized the dinner in question at a luxury hotel in Tokyo the day before the event, and the secretary is an assistant to the first secretary in charge of accounting.
According to Asahi, the targets that the prosecution sees as a violation of the Political Fund Law is an event over four years from 2016 to 2019. Consequently, the amount subject to punishment is approximately 30 million yen, which admitted the fact of that were not on the list. Asahi said the prosecution is considering a brief prosecution, taking into account his statements and the size of the unlisted amount.
The prosecution plans to decide whether to prosecute the secretary after completing the investigation of former Prime Minister Abe. The main questions expected by the prosecution are whether they knew the conservation facts in advance and why the National Assembly responded differently to the facts. However, the public opinion is that it is not easy to prove the charges if former Prime Minister Abe denies the fact that he was recognized beforehand. Former Prime Minister Abe has repeatedly denied the conservation allegations through responses to the National Assembly, but after the allegations were confirmed to be true, he changed his words, saying he only spoke the details of the report.
As reported, if the royal prosecution closes the case under the line of briefly prosecuting former Prime Minister Abe, it is obvious that there will be a controversy over the prosecution’s investigation or the punishment of a cotton bat. The prosecutors in the case submitted a request to the Tokyo District Prosecutor’s Office on Day 1, citing the fact that former Prime Minister Abe repeatedly lied and called for formal prosecution. They warned: “If you slow down the investigation and choose a light disposition, the public’s confidence in the prosecution will collapse.” Some point out that the prosecution should actively investigate the part of providing entertainment to local voters (violation of the Public Officials Elections Act).
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