TOKYO, Aug 31 (News On Japan) –
Former Upper House member Megumi Hirose (58) has been indicted by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s particular investigation unit for fraudulently acquiring the wage of her publicly appointed secretary from the federal government.
Hirose is accused of falsely claiming that a person, whom she registered as her second public secretary from the yr earlier than final till final yr, was working, regardless of there being no precise work carried out. She allegedly defrauded the federal government out of roughly 3.5 million yen in wage.
Last month, the particular investigation unit searched Hirose’s workplaces, together with these within the Diet Members’ Office Building in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, and her native workplace in Morioka City, as a part of the investigation into the case.
According to sources, Hirose admitted throughout voluntary questioning by the particular investigation unit that there was no precise work carried out by the secretary in query.
Hirose resigned from her place as an Upper House member on the fifteenth and launched a press release acknowledging that she had acquired funds from the secretary’s wage to cowl workplace bills, stating, “It was indeed a rash act, and I am reflecting on my behavior.”
Source: ANN