THE ASAHI SHIMBUN2009/12/31
Prosecutors plan to indict a Lower House member in January on charges of violating the Political Fund Control Law when he was an aide to Democratic Party of Japan kingpin Ichiro Ozawa, sources said.
Tomohiro Ishikawa, 36, has told investigators that he helped raise about 400 million yen for Rikuzankai, Ozawa's political fund management group, which used the money to buy land in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Oct. 29, 2004, the sources said.
However, Rikuzankai's political fund report for that year did not include the money.
(IHT/Asahi: December 31,2009)
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