The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday indicted without arrest former lawmaker Akira Ishii and a former staffer at his office, Kaaru Okawa, 60, for alleged fraud involving state-paid salaries of a secretary.
The prosecutors did not disclose whether the two admitted to the charges.
According to the indictment, Ishii, 68, a former Upper House lawmaker, and the staffer allegedly defrauded the state of some ¥8.28 million ($56,000) between May 2021 and October 2022 by registering a male employee of a social welfare service corporation headed by Ishii as as a public secretary.
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