The Foreign Ministry dismissed two ministry officials on Monday, following their indictment earlier in the day on charges they mishandled about 22 million yen in public funds, the ministry said.
Hiromu Kobayashi, a 45-year-old former assistant director in the Office of the Deputy Director General for General Affairs at the Economic Affairs Bureau, and his 38-year-old subordinate, Tsutomu Okuma, allegedly padded bills related to last year's Group of Eight summit in Okinawa Prefecture.
They were indicted by public prosecutors along with two executives of a Tokyo-based limousine rental firm.