Ishiba looks like a recovery scandal

Tokyo, May 7th (Jiji Press)-The Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had received more than 30 million yen of over 30 million yen and not announced in his reports on political funds, the Shukan Bunshun Weekly Magazine reported on Wednesday in the online edition.

The spokesman for the chief cabinet Yoshimasa Hayashi, the spokesman for the Prime Minister, said on the same day of a press conference that Ishiba's office had told the magazine that “the political means had properly treated them in accordance with the laws and regulations and income and expenditure reports on them”.

According to the magazine article, the supporter admitted that between 2003 and 2014 he paid millions of Yen for the purchase of a donation campaign party tickets, and gave the Ishiba campaign several times as he ran for the presidency of the ruling liberal democratic party. The man also said that the total amount he gave to the Ishiba page is estimated to be at least 30 million yen.

After the recess scandal, in which Ishiba met, Yoshihiko Noda, chairman of the Japanese oppositional constitutional democratic party of the opposition, expressed the willingness to seek the Prime Minister's declaration before the political ethics council of the House of Representatives.

“We have to clarify it thoroughly,” said Noda.

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