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MarkX
This amount of 1.7 million yen is a joke. Everyone knows that Abe and the LDP sent them more than 125 million yen to "ahem, cough cough" help with the election campaign of Anri Kawai. That was the money that was distributed and I wish the prosecutors could make that connection, but the shredders are working overtime in the LDP headquarters to get rid of that information.
dbsaiya
Aah yes, and they also collected their summer bonus just like Abe and everyone else in the government while the masses struggle through disaster and pandemic.
Yubaru
Abe is a hypocrite, as leader of the LDP he is ultimately the one responsible for the actions of his underlings here. He made a half-arsed apology on TV yesterday about this, and skirted the issue of his responsibility in the entire matter.
Fiddlers
I am sure no time locked up with bail and suspended sentence. Very different rules for the Japanese elite.
Kobe White Bar Owner
@ Yubaru.
taking responsibility for ones actions is not the Japanese way though. Deny, deflect find a scapegoat anything but standing up and admitting they were wrong. Unless you include the deep bow/then back to business bull we often see.
garymalmgren
Does anyone know if they are still in detention?
Wouldn't want them talking to each other or destroying evidence , would we?
gary
Cricky
Wonder who they annoyed, usually this level of people are protected, they received a ton of money from the PM, the LDP. They must be obnoxious even by the obnoxious standards of the LDP.
Vince Black
Lock them both away for life
Cricky
Lock up the whole rotten self serving political elite and bureaucratic idiots, sterilisation (that was thir idea) for them all start afresh with normal working people who can run a household debt free. And care about happiness and children.
Aly Rustom
you guys have pretty much summed up everything I have to say and then some. I concur.
Goodlucktoyou
They are stuffed. They can’t skip bail.
But maybe, the old brown envelope trick might work?
Spitfire
With the behaviour of Abe and his LDP cohorts I find it highly ironic that it was his party that brought 'moral education' the the nation's public schools.
It seems that 'immoral education' would have been a more appropriate title.
YeahRight
I wish some of that money had come to me. But then, I can't vote. The whole vote buying law is bogus anyway. Once in the booth, no one knows who you are voting for. I say abolish the law. Throwing good money after bad.
Ken Wyatt
"Ex-Justice Minister", oh the irony...
Ascissor
If Abe's top prosecutor hadn't been forced to resign following the mahjong scandal, would the indictment have been made?
macv
there can be no justice in a country where the minister of justice and his lawmaker wife engage in criminal behavior
InspectorGadget
There is a bus ticket soaking in a glass of water somewhere ready for when the punishment is about to be dispensed.
dan
ex minister of justice..shameful!