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Prosecutors building criminal cases against Japan's ruling party accountants

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Prosecutors building criminals cases against Japan's ruling party politicians. No, of course not. Someone else will take the rap. It was obvious long ago but it looks good for the prosecutors to maintain the perception of going after bigger fish while the word "accountant" gets more and more airtime. In more cynical moments, I wonder if the whole thing is completely choreographed, maybe even the scandal itself. The LDP know they can weather a scandal of any proportions in the end. And the accountants will get a small slap on the wrist and so what looked like a big deal will end.

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*Prosecutors building criminals cases against Japan's ruling party* accountants

Typical dastardly accountants; trying to enrich themselves and smear the good reputations of these pure LDP politicians.

Japan's legal; system is pure theatre , to punish the weak, find scapegoats, and let the influential and connected off with suspended sentences and light fines for their far greater crimes.

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"It wasn't me, it was the accountant and my secretary." Same old tried and true playbook of the LDP.

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LOL! Right, let's go after 'regular' people; not the criminals.

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Simon FostonToday  12:43 pm JST

time to make a new party with fresh blood, and ideas and far from the penguin's ceremony

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Of course it was the accountants!!.........Why did we all not know this weeks ago? But then, what happened to the money before the accountants could do the auditing......I will give you one guess, to the L politicians.

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What kind of justice is this?

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Accountants, eh? The LDP succeeds only because of the inner, predictable, and unshakable weakness of the Japanese voter… a collective who simply does not seem to possess the fundamental desire necessary to break free from that endlessly manipulative, bantering mob of unscrupulous miscreants whom they vote in over and over and over… Then again, they clearly are exercising their “democratic” right to make the worst possible decision. It’s sort of fun to observe.

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Yeah all these evil accountant fan boys voluntarily and by their own choice trying to enrich their LDP bosses, I'm sure punishing them will fix everything, great.

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indigo

Today 01:12 pm JST

Simon FostonToday 12:43 pm JST

time to make a new party with fresh blood, and ideas and far from the penguin's ceremony

I'm not sure why our comments got deleted as I received no notification of it. Hrm.

Anyway, it doesn't matter what anyone does - they can start new parties, merge with other parties or try and get by on their own - until they can raise as much money as the LDP.

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Nordic

Today 01:38 pm JST

The LDP succeeds only because of the inner, predictable, and unshakable weakness of the Japanese voter… a collective who simply does not seem to possess the fundamental desire necessary to break free from that endlessly manipulative, bantering mob of unscrupulous miscreants whom they vote in over and over and over…

Some of them seem to think that they have a good thing going with their local LDP politicians. They give their support at election time and the politicians make sure they're well looked-after with pork barrel public works contracts and other kinds of lucrative subsidies. It seems these voters who feel they are benefitting from LDP incumbency often exert pressure on relatives and employees to vote LDP as well, and no one wants to argue.

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Prosecutors are considering building criminal cases in January against accountants... 

Ah yes. Those treacherous accountants, who no doubt did all of this on their own, without any orders from party officials or high-ranking politicians.

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Those being investigated: "What is this?! How dare they?! We already resigned and said we are still keeping our seats! This is supposed to have ended!"

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The sum of the funds is believed to have amounted to around 500 million yen ($3.5 million) over a five-year period through 2022.

Peanuts and crumbs compared to the US mega donors.

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Bean counters on parade hey?

While looking into the potential role senior faction members have played in the scandal, prosecutors also seem to be targeting lawmakers who received large sums.

"Could also's" "Also Seems" are doin all the heavy lifting around here.

What a vote getter this story. Nobody call the law its turnin out to be just another dial-a-fall guy.

Oh yeah…forgot about ex lawmaker nobody name last week and his youtube sidekick…

So lame. Whose stupid enough to hire accountants that cant count and dont pay taxes legally ?

These lawmakers are geniuses right? So whose criminal enough to hire accountants that got the license but forget how to count for election tax free Loot not mynernumber it?

Go on. Fill the blanks in and go get the BstRDS!

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I mean we knew they would get away with it, but blaming their accountants... common. I'm not sure who they think is stupider the general public or the prosectuers.

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The prosecutors can’t touch the LDP politicians so they are going after the accountants as scrape goats…Japans legal system at its best!

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prosecutors turn up unexpectedly to ‘search’ premises after giving notice of intent to do so. Wonder if the media presence tipped off those inside. (Hope they all took their shoes off at the genkan).

And now act 2 of this farce. Investigation turns to the accountants.

Hmm. Don’t expect anyone to question who supplied the accountants with the zombie figures.

Act 3 being set up. Plausible deniability all round.

Ac 4. Game over. Business as usual.

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quercetumJan. 2 07:56 pm JST

The sum of the funds is believed to have amounted to around 500 million yen ($3.5 million) over a five-year period through 2022.

Peanuts and crumbs compared to the US mega donors.

Better unlimited donations than a corrupt uniparty state like your hero China.

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Yeah, blame the accountants, not the politicians.

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quercetum

Jan. 2 07:56 pm JST

"The sum of the funds is believed to have amounted to around 500 million yen ($3.5 million) over a five-year period through 2022."

Peanuts and crumbs compared to the US mega donors.

So? If you shoplift something costing less than ¥1000 from a convenience store you will probably face a harsher punishment than any of them politicians.

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