Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi rejected allegations Thursday that his close aide swindled a man, now deceased, out of shares currently worth about 2.3 billion yen.
“I understand that he did nothing wrong,” Obuchi said during an Upper House plenary session , adding that he himself was not involved in the alleged incident.
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