| Ozawa aides face charges in fund scam |
| The Japan Times Jan. 9, 2010 |
| Prosecutors may charge two ex-aides of ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa without arrest for allegedly failing to list more than \400 million in his funds management body's 2004 political funds report, sources said Friday. The two are Lower House member Tomohiro Ishikawa, 36, of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, and Takanori Okubo, 48, a former state-funded secretary to Ozawa.
Ishikawa was one of the secretaries to Ozawa at that time. Ishikawa won a Lower House seat from the Hokkaido proportional representation block for the first time in 2007 and was re-elected in the August 2009 general election.Both are expected to be indicted on charges of violating the Political Funds Control Law for allegedly failing to list the funds involved in the political funds report. |
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