Finance ministry set to punish 20 officials over tampering of moritomo sale docs

Finance ministry set to punish 20 officials over tampering of moritomo sale docs

OSAKA-the ministry of finance is poised to punish 20 officials over the altering of documents relating to the heavily discounted sale of state land in Osaka prefecture to nationalist school operator moritomo gakuen, with a report on the case expected on june 4.

The ministry is expected to admit that former senior finance ministry officials nobuhisa sagawa, who previously headed the ministry financials bureau, ordered the doctoring of documents.the finance ministry has explained that documents on the sale of the land plot in Toyonaka, Osaka prefecture, were altered to match the diet testimony of sagawa. In a probe into the alteration, several works at the kinki local finance bureau stated by the changes were orderd by sagawa.

Sagawa appears to be denying direct involment. The finance ministry, however, is expected to acknowledge that there were in effect orders from sagawa.

Based on the outcome of the ministry probe, sagawa is likely to receive the equivalent of a three month suspension, while minoru nakamura, director of the financial bureau,s planning and admini stration division, is expect to be hit with a one month suspension.

Sagawa has already left his posion,his retirement bonus will be cut by an amount. Corresponding to the length of the suspention. The deputy and administrative vice.the alternative of documents was report on march 2, and on march 12 the ministry admini that 14 documents relating to the state land sale had been alternative between february and april 2017 information had been deleted in over 300 place. This including removing the name of prime minister shinzo abe’s wife akie from the documents along with the name of multiple politians.

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