Prosecutors seek 7-year-terms for couple in Abe cronyism scandal

Repugnant that Shin-chan and his wife are escaping responsibility. The rightists sure know how to protect their own.

Prosecutors have not indicted any officials over the incidents.

Free pass for corruption

justice at its finest.

And amazingly non of this has stuck to Abe either!

Lock them both up. They've also got ties to Nippon Kaigi and who knows what other right wing nutjob groups. Racists, both of them. But they're also very rich and as we know rich people don't go to jail

This stinks of Abe planting a job for his wife. Now these two people are going to jail.

And honest Abe and Akie get away with it!

In other countries or in other times to incur the wrath of the powerful and untouchable, to implicate them in complots or expose them to public scrutiny would cost heads or other draconian punishments so it's no surprise that Kagoikes are now facing the possibility of serving serious time for dragging "honest" Abe and his spouse through the mud. To paraphrase that MAGA fount of wisdom and paragon of virtue: in the old days they were dealt with differently.

I think Kagoike was expelled from Nippon Kaigi. You’d think they would be put in jail for brainwashing little children with their nationalistic mumbo jumbo, rather than being accused of tricking Osaka in handing over money for a new school. That school was recommended by Abe’s wife. And Nippon Kaigi, as well as a host of LDP folk, who were all in awe and moved to tears by what they were “teaching”, so one would actually be surprised if the Kagoikes hadn’t received any favorable treatment (= money). The Kagoikes biggest crime of course is for having made Abe and his wife look bad, who are the ones that should be sharing a jail cell.

Lol you've got to love the smell of fresh corruption in the morning. Best example of a classic banana republic.

But, of course, the politicians and bureaucrats avoid any criminal charges!

Of course they do!!

Because!

I HATE the two-tiered justice system, no matter what country it is!! One system for the haves / those who are connected, and another for the ordinary person.

And no mention of the local Finance Ministry official who committed suicide. These criminals did everything with the knowledge and support of the Osaka LDP, LDP HQ and the Prime Minister and his wife, yet these two numpties will take the fall alone. The Kagoikes are repugnant people but the Abes, Aso and all the rest have blood on their hands too.

How about the jokers who signed off on this fraud? They never questioned anything? Or, were they aware of the fraud and slipped it under the radar? It seems quite strange that only the perpetrators are facing charges and none of the government officials that let this go through to planning stage.

What about the lawyer who was found to have been connected to it? Or the redacted documents which were poorly blacked out and able to be disclosed with some basic computer knowledge? Nothing ever came of that?

Lock them both up. They've also got ties to Nippon Kaigi and who knows what other right wing nutjob groups. Racists, both of them. But they're also very rich and as we know rich people don't go to jail

Fine sense of due process you have.

Odd that no one has mentioned that they have already spent ten months locked up during the same period when people here were bleeting about Ghosn being locked up for a couple of months.

Compared to Ghosn, the Koike couple are hardly wealthy.

Do we have one standard here for rich white men like Ghosn and another standard for not particularly well-off Japanese?

Articles such as these are anathema for the does no wrong crowd. Facts are a tough pill to swallow.

Abe has repeatedly told the Diet that neither he nor his wife was involved in the land sale and that he would resign if evidence to the contrary is found.

Translation: "Ya git nuthin' on me. Nuthin'!.... But if you find something, I'll quietly retire to my comfortable life with my share of the loot."