TOKYO (TR) – Six folks, together with the consultant director of a pachinko parlor operator headquartered in Roppongi, have been arrested on suspicion of promising to pay rewards in change for voting for a candidate in final month’s House of Councillors election, experiences NHK (Aug. 26).
Delpara consultant director Masanori Yamamoto, 50, gross sales supervisor Kazuyuki Yuasa, 46, administrative director Yoshiyuki Konishi, 44, and three others are suspected of promising to pay rewards to 60 pachinko parlor workers in change for voting for a proportional illustration candidate in final month’s House of Councillors election.
According to Tokyo Metropolitan Police, Yamamoto, who’s often known as Lee Chang-bong, and his associates held an internet convention that introduced collectively parlor managers from throughout the nation and promised to pay every worker as much as 4,000 yen in return for a vote for Yasuhisa Abe, the Liberal Democratic Party’s proportional illustration candidate.
Police haven’t revealed whether or not the six suspects have admitted to violating the Public Offices Election Act.
According to the Delpara web site and different sources, the corporate operates 31 parlors in Tokyo and the seven prefectures, together with Kagoshima.
The investigation is ongoing. In addition to Tokyo Metropolitan Police, legislation enforcement in these seven prefectures are investigating the chance that rewards had been promised to greater than 250 folks.
Abe is the chairman of an trade affiliation made up of pachinko parlors throughout the nation. Although he obtained over 88,000 votes within the election, he was defeated.