Former Deputy Minister Kakizawa to be indicted for violating the Public Offices Election Act Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Special Investigation Department | NHK

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s particular investigation division plans to indict the Deputy Minister of Justice Mizuaki Kakizawa, who was arrested on suspicion of bribery associated to the Koto Ward mayoral election in Tokyo, on the seventeenth, the deadline for his detention, for violating the Public Offices Election Act. In addition, it seems that an investigation is underway with the intention of submitting expenses in opposition to former ward mayor Yayoi Kimura, who was elected with help on this election, for violating the Public Offices Election Act.

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