Lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa, one of three former secretaries accused of falsifying Ichiro Ozawa's political funding reports, denied Thursday that he received slush funds from contractor Mizutani Construction Co.

Ishikawa, 37, then a member of the Democratic Party of Japan and now an independent member of the Lower House, made the denial during the third session of the trial for all three former Ozawa aides at the Tokyo District Court.

The other defendants are Takanori Okubo and Mitsutomo Ikeda.