The Tokyo District Court handed a suspended prison term Wednesday to the daughter of a former Saitama governor for violating the Political Funds Control Law.
Momoko Ichikawa, 53, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for four years. The scandal forced the resignation of her father, Yoshihiko Tsuchiya, as governor.
Ichikawa was found guilty of embezzling 116 million yen in donations and party ticket income from Tsuchiya's political fund management office, where she worked as a manager, to cover losses incurred by the financially troubled companies that she ran.