> Prosecutors said Ikeda, 57, and Kazuhiro Kakinuma, 45, failed to list in their political fund balance reports excess income totaling 48.26 million yen ($326,600) as donations.
> Ikeda Reimei-kai, a political fund management organization Ikeda chairs, reportedly received the money from the Liberal Democratic Party’s Abe faction over the five-year period from 2018 to 2022.
> Before prosecutors raided houses and offices related to Ikeda in December, one of his aides had smashed several computers in the lawmaker’s local office in Nagoya with a screwdriver-like tool, according to sources.
> Prosecutors believe the computers contained accounting-related data and that Ikeda had ordered their destruction.
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> Prosecutors said Ikeda, 57, and Kazuhiro Kakinuma, 45, failed to list in their political fund balance reports excess income totaling 48.26 million yen ($326,600) as donations.
> Ikeda Reimei-kai, a political fund management organization Ikeda chairs, reportedly received the money from the Liberal Democratic Party’s Abe faction over the five-year period from 2018 to 2022.
> Before prosecutors raided houses and offices related to Ikeda in December, one of his aides had smashed several computers in the lawmaker’s local office in Nagoya with a screwdriver-like tool, according to sources.
> Prosecutors believe the computers contained accounting-related data and that Ikeda had ordered their destruction.
> Documents were also destroyed, they suspect.