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Prosecutors to quiz Japan ruling party's Ozawa
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July 23, 2010, Friday
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PROSECUTORS will question Japanese ruling party powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa over a funding scandal, a newspaper said, a move that could damage a potential challenger to Prime Minister Naoto Kan ahead of a party leadership vote in September.
Media reports have said Ozawa, a veteran campaign strategist but viewed by many voters as an old-fashioned wheeler dealer, may be preparing a challenge to Kan, whose Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) suffered a stinging defeat in an upper house election this month.
A challenge from Ozawa would be an additional headache for Kan, who already faces falling voter support and a public debt nearly twice the size of Japan's US$5 trillion economy.
A judicial panel last week ruled that an earlier decision not to charge Ozawa over an alleged false entry in the 2007 financial reports of his funding group was inappropriate, the Sankei newspaper said today.
Judicial panels of ordinary citizens review cases where a complaint has been made about prosecutors' failure to indict a suspect.
Where a panel says that the prosecutors' decision not to charge is inappropriate, prosecutors must re-examine the case. But if they then decide not to pursue it, the panel will not have any further say and the case will be concluded.
Prosecutors are currently re-examing Ozawa's funding scandals regarding his group's financial statements for 2004 and 2005, after another judicial review panel said in April that Ozawa should be charged.
Media reports have said Ozawa, a veteran campaign strategist but viewed by many voters as an old-fashioned wheeler dealer, may be preparing a challenge to Kan, whose Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) suffered a stinging defeat in an upper house election this month.
A challenge from Ozawa would be an additional headache for Kan, who already faces falling voter support and a public debt nearly twice the size of Japan's US$5 trillion economy.
A judicial panel last week ruled that an earlier decision not to charge Ozawa over an alleged false entry in the 2007 financial reports of his funding group was inappropriate, the Sankei newspaper said today.
Judicial panels of ordinary citizens review cases where a complaint has been made about prosecutors' failure to indict a suspect.
Where a panel says that the prosecutors' decision not to charge is inappropriate, prosecutors must re-examine the case. But if they then decide not to pursue it, the panel will not have any further say and the case will be concluded.
Prosecutors are currently re-examing Ozawa's funding scandals regarding his group's financial statements for 2004 and 2005, after another judicial review panel said in April that Ozawa should be charged.
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