Prosecutors on Tuesday indicted two former secretaries of Yuko Obuchi, a lawmaker who resigned as industry minister last year, over suspected falsification of political funds reports from her funds management body.

Prosecutors dropped the case against Obuchi due to a lack of evidence.

The prosecutors allege that Kenichiro Orita, the Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker's 66-year-old former secretary, manipulated entries for some events for her supporters and falsified funds reports accordingly, to compensate for off-the-book expenditures in the past.