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Mr. Hatoyama has admitted that his office used the names of dead people and those who did not make donations in statements for a fundraising report. Reports of 193 donations totaling 21.77 million, made from 2005 to 2008, were misstated. Some 90 names were of dead people and people who did not make donations.
On the LDP side, suspicion has surfaced that Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano's office received 55.3 million between 1992 and 2005 from H.S. Futures, a futures trading company, via a dummy political body. It is also suspected that the office of Mr. Yoshimi Watanabe, former administrative reform minister who bolted the LDP, received 35.4 million during the same period from the same company through the same dummy political body.
Meanwhile, public prosecutors have brought a fresh criminal charge against Mr. Mikio Kunisawa, former president of Nishimatsu Construction Co., over the purchase of fundraising tickets for an LDP faction led by Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshihiro Nikai. The new charge comes after an inquest committee objected to prosecutors' earlier decision not to indict him. Mr. Kunisawa has already been charged with giving 5 million in illegal donations to Ozawa's office.
In an effort to assail Mr. Hatoyama, the LDP has set up a project team to probe problems with political donations to him. Yet, at the same time, the LDP takes the position that Mr. Yosano and Mr. Nikai have already fulfilled their responsibility to explain their situations. Both the LPD and the DPJ should realize that people are not satisfied thus far with the explanations given by the politicians involved.
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