Amember of the Fukaya city assembly, Saitama Prefecture, who was elected in a March election, and his wife were arrested May 8 on suspicion of wining and dining supporters in mid-February. But on May 27, the Saitama District Public Prosecutors Office released them without deciding whether they should be prosecuted.
People questioned by the police in connection with the investigation of the case say that they were forced to put their seals on investigators' records of oral statements that did not agree with what actually happened.
Police doing the interrogation apparently acted in the same way as in past cases when false charges became an issue.