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Tomorrow, summons of sworn witness of Sagawa-shi
Finally the key man of the “document-tampering problem” will stand for summons of sworn witness.
This was 2001.
This was Sagawa Nobuhisa-shi at that time who took office as the Personal Secretary to the Finance Minister Shiokawa in the Koizumi cabinet,
The evaluation within the Finance Ministry on Sagawa-shi at that time was said to be “on one side he was stern towards his subordinates, while he steadfastly dealt with the instructions from his superior”.
In February 2017, Sagawa-shi repeated his answer at the Diet with the point “there is no negotiation record between the Kinki Local Financial Bureau and Moritomo Gakuen”.
According to the officials of the Financial Bureau, at that time Sagawa-shi was said to have stayed in the Finance Ministry day after day and worked all night for the preparation of the answer.
There was also voice that “I think that Sagawa-san did not want to trouble Minister Aso”.
Such Sagawa-shi would stand for the “summons of sworn witness”.
Different from “summons of unsworn witness” which there is no penalty even for false statement, if one makes false statement during “summons of sworn witness” he would be charged with perjury, there is also a possibility of imprisonment of more than three months and less than than 10 years.
What would Sagawa-shi answer at last?
There are three possible scenarios.
The first scenario which would be the most surprising is that Sagawa-shi testifies on “the involvement of Prime Minister Abe and politicians”.
In which case, this will overturn the explanation of the government thus far “Prime Minister Abe and Minister Aso did not give instruction at all and they did not know about this”.
The second scenario is that Sagawa-shi says that “all the document tampering was done with my own instruction”.
However, in this case the opposition parties would pursue “this is impossible to occur”.
And then, the third scenario is that Sagawa-shi repeats what he has been saying “I cannot answer because there is a possibility of criminal prosecution”.
However, in such case no progress is made,
there is also a possibility that there will be increasing voices “it can’t be summons” from the Diet which may become an uproar.
Because either scenario may cause trouble,
it seems to be a summons of sworn witness which we should keep our eye on.
Source: News Zeroイチメン (http://www.ntv.co.jp/zero/ichimen/2018/03/post-359.html)
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Date: 2018-04-05 12:56 pm (UTC)While reading this, I think please tell us the truth already!!!
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