A total of 16 Diet members, including former Cabinet ministers, have admitted receiving donations from scandal-tainted mutual-aid foundation KSD, a Kyodo News survey found.
Of the 93 Diet members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and one independent who belongs to a parliamentarians' league that supports a political arm of KSD, 58 responded to the survey.
Of these, 16 admitted to having received donations from the organization for small businesses, supervised by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.