Prosecutors have begun questioning, on a voluntary basis, people who were listed as donors to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s fund management body in connection with false statements in his political funds reports, sources familiar with the case said.
The investigators are also expected to question one of Hatoyama’s former secretaries, the sources said.
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