In a case involving a political funding get together run by a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s particular investigation division revealed that regardless of receiving over 48 million yen in kickbacks from the Abe-aligned Seiwa Policy Research Group over the 5 years till 2019, the coverage secretary Yoshitaka Ikeda (57), a member of the House of Representatives, was indicted on expenses of false statements in violation of the Political Funds Control Act, for colluding with the federal government and failing to document it as earnings within the political funds earnings and expenditure report of a fund administration group.

