Japanese investigators will give up prosecuting a former trade minister and other ruling party heavyweights over alleged fundraising violations due to the difficulty of proving the case, newspaper. -January 13, 2024 at 06:33 am EST
- MarketScreener
Prosecutors are unlikely to build a criminal case against key members of the largest faction of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in connection with a political fundraising scandal that has rocked the LDP, according to sources close to the matter.
Japanese prosecutors made their first arrest Sunday in connection with a major political slush fund scandal that has rocked Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s already unpopular government. Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office said in a statement it apprehended former vice-education minister Yoshitaka Ikeda on suspicion of failing to report fundraising proceeds he received from his faction…