The Supreme Court rejected the appeals of a couple who ran the scandal-hit Moritomo Gakuen educational institution, effectively finalizing their prison sentences for defrauding the central and local governments.
OSAKA The Osaka District Court on Nov. 25 dismissed a compensation claim filed by the widow of a Finance Ministry employee who killed himself in 2018 after being ordered to falsify official documents.
The Japanese government has agreed to pay damages to a former finance ministry bureaucrat s wife who alleges her husband killed himself after being ordered to tamper documents related to favoritism allegations against then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the wife s lawyer says.
The widow of a former Finance Ministry bureaucrat who took his own life after he was ordered to falsify documents on Oct. 11 asked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to reopen the probe into the Moritomo Gakuen educational institution scandal.