Former Democratic Party of Japan President Ichiro Ozawa on Tuesday once again flatly denied that he conspired with his aides to falsify his political fund management body's reports in 2004 and 2005 over a ¥400 million land deal in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo.
The point of his case is whether the DPJ power broker was told the details of the records in his fund management body Rikuzankai, and whether he gave the former aides the nod to make false entries.
At the 12th session of his Tokyo District Court trial, Ozawa said he left it up to his secretaries to keep the records of Rikuzankai's revenues and expenditures, claiming he never checked the reports and instead focused on his political activities.