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Sagawa denies Abes' involvement

key figure in the Finance Ministry's document-falsifying scandal related to a shady land deal has testified that neither Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nor his wife Akie was involved in the matter.

Nobuhisa Sagawa gave sworn testimony before the budget committees of both houses of the Diet on Tuesday.

Sagawa formerly headed the Finance Ministry's Financial Bureau, which doctored papers pertaining to the steeply discounted sale in 2016 of state-owned land in Osaka to private school operator Moritomo Gakuen.



 ☆Hmm...but I have to say again that it's impossible to do such things only by the bureaucrats, because they have no reason for taking risks of document-falsifying. We have to wait for the investigations of the prosecutors' office.