TOKYO, Aug 31 (News On Japan) –
Former Higher Home member Megumi Hirose (58) has been indicted by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Workplace’s particular investigation unit for fraudulently acquiring the wage of her publicly appointed secretary from the federal government.
Hirose is accused of falsely claiming that a person, whom she registered as her second public secretary from the 12 months earlier than final till final 12 months, was working, regardless of there being no precise work carried out. She allegedly defrauded the federal government out of roughly 3.5 million yen in wage.
Final month, the particular investigation unit searched Hirose’s places of work, together with these within the Weight-reduction plan Members’ Workplace Constructing in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, and her native workplace in Morioka Metropolis, as a part of the investigation into the case.
In response to sources, Hirose admitted throughout voluntary questioning by the particular investigation unit that there was no precise work carried out by the secretary in query.
Hirose resigned from her place as an Higher Home member on the fifteenth and launched an announcement acknowledging that she had obtained funds from the secretary’s wage to cowl workplace bills, stating, “It was certainly a rash act, and I’m reflecting on my habits.”
Supply: ANN
