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Abe Faction Accountant Found Guilty in LDP Funds Scandal

Abe Faction Accountant Found Guilty in LDP Funds Scandal

   Tokyo, Sept. 30 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced the chief accountant of a Liberal Democratic Party faction once led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to three years in prison, suspended for five years, over a high-profile political funds scandal involving LDP factions.
   The court, presided over by Judge Yasunobu Hosoya, handed down the suspended sentence after the prosecution sought a three-year term for Junichiro Matsumoto, 77.
   According to the indictment, Matsumoto failed to include about 675 million yen in revenues and about 676 million yen in expenditures in the faction's political funds reports for 2018 to 2022, in violation of the political funds control law.
   In the scandal, the Abe faction is believed to have failed to report some revenues from ticket sales at fundraising events and kicked back such unreported revenues to faction members.
   A former chief accountant of another faction involved in the scandal has already been sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for five years.

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