Former Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Koichi Hagiuda has been questioned on a voluntary basis over a political fundraising scandal involving the Japanese ruling party’s largest faction, sources close to the matter said Tuesday.
Prosecutors have already questioned several other senior members of the faction amid allegations that the group failed to declare hundreds of millions of yen in revenue from fundraising parties in political funding reports and created slush funds to reimburse its members.
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