A Foreign Ministry panel that in April dismissed allegations a diplomat at the embassy in Australia misused public funds in the early 1990s has failed to report on its results, ministry sources said Saturday.
This breaches the ministry's rules on documentation control, which mandate compiling documents on office work and operations conducted.
An official at the ministry's Overseas Establishments Division said, "There are documents stipulating the content of questioning of related personnel but we did not compile a report because investigation results were summarized in the vice foreign minister's Diet statement."