Prosecutors seek to question Seko, Matsuno in LDP fund scandal
Tokyo prosecutors have requested voluntary interviews with Hirokazu
Matsuno and Hiroshige Seko, two ruling party heavyweights who recently
resigned from their high-level posts over a money scandal, sources said.
Investigators are expected to question the two on a voluntary basis along
with other senior members of the Abe faction in the Liberal Democratic
Party by the end of the week, the sources said.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office is investigating the Abe faction
over its suspected failure to report about 500 million yen ($3.5 million) in
revenue gained through sales of tickets to its fund-raising parties over the
past five years.
Investigators suspect the scheme was systematic, and are trying to determine
who was behind it and why.
Matsuno, who stepped down as chief Cabinet secretary over the scandal on Dec.
14, had served as secretary-general of the faction and was in a position to oversee
its financial matters.
He and Seko, who resigned as secretary-general of the LDP’s Upper House caucus,
are each believed to have received more than 10 million yen of the funds from the
faction and failed to record the money in their fund reports, the sources said.
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