SHIZUOKA (TR) — Public prosecutors have indicted the previous mayor of Ito City over a brazen tutorial fraud scheme, alleging she cast a college diploma utilizing counterfeit stamps bought on the web, stories Jiji Press (Mar. 30).
On Monday, the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutors Office indicted 56-year-old Maki Takubo with out arrest on suspicion of violating the Local Autonomy Law. Following the indictment, she is now slated to face trial over the scandal.
According to prosecutors, Takubo is accused of fabricating her diploma from Toyo University between late May and early June of 2025.
To full the deception, she allegedly utilized counterfeit seals bearing the names of the college’s head and the chief of its regulation school. Investigators imagine Takubo merely purchased the faux stamps on-line.
She then offered the bogus certificates to the pinnacle and vice head of the Ito City Assembly in an try and legitimize her credentials.
The former mayor can also be accused of mendacity to a metropolis meeting particular investigation panel throughout a listening to in August 2025. Despite having lengthy identified she didn’t really possess a level, Takubo falsely claimed to the committee that she solely found she hadn’t graduated on June 28 of that yr.