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LDP lawmaker Hirose suspected of defrauding government
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on July 30 searched the offices and home of Megumi Hirose, an Upper House member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, on suspicion of fraud. Prosecutors suspect that Hirose defrauded the central government of the salary paid for an aide registered to her, who did no work. Hirose, 58, returned to her home in Tokyo’s Bunkyo Ward at around 11:30 a.m. and told reporters, “I will give a full explanation later.” Reporters gathered in front of a building that houses Hirose’s local office in Morioka, the capital of Iwate Prefecture. The entrance door was covered with ... (full story)