Former Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa should be indicted over falsified reports from his political fund management body, an independent judicial panel announced Monday.
The decision to indict the political heavyweight came after the 11-member Tokyo No. 5 Committee for the Inquest of Prosecution concluded in April that Ozawa should be charged over political funds reports for 2004 and 2005 that were allegedly falsified by Rikuzankai, his fund management body.
The second decision means Ozawa is certain to become the first politician to be charged under the system.