Alleged “Female Secretary Embezzlement” Incident at the Office of a Former Olympic Medalist Legislator

In early November, a suspicious document circulated and became a quiet topic of conversation in Nagata-cho.

Embezzlement at the office of a “Diet member

Although there are only a little over 700 people in Nagata-cho, crimes such as fraud, bribery, and violations of the Political Funds Law have been uncovered one after another. Perhaps the crime rate is higher than that of organized crime syndicates.

In fact, an embezzlement case is currently under investigation at the office of a Diet member. The Metropolitan Police Department is being consulted.

The following is a detailed description of the “incident.

A female secretary working alone at a Diet member’s office in Nagatacho, Tokyo, embezzled money from the accountant of a local office to pay for her activities. The expenses were supposed to be used to pay for party tickets, cab fares for Diet members, and other expenses.

However, another secretary was assigned to work at the Diet building. However, another secretary was assigned to work at the Diet building, and the female secretary suddenly stopped showing up at the Diet building, fearing that she would be found to be embezzling money.

When we checked the bank book for the assembly building again, we found that the female secretary had withdrawn more than 6 million yen.

The document further states, “The female secretary made the first move,” and continues as follows.

[Joon] … The secretary sent a content-certified letter demanding payment of 8 million yen in compensation because she had developed an “adjustment disorder” as a result of being subjected to power harassment.

This is a very unruly female secretary.

The parliamentarian, who is supposed to be the victim of the harassment, has been consulting with the Metropolitan Police Department about the embezzlement case, but he is afraid that the female secretary will come out and say that he was harassed without any basis in fact. 〉.

Is the content of this document really true?

When we interviewed the relevant authorities, we learned that the “incident” took place at the office of Manabu Horii, a member of the House of Representatives. Mr. Horii is a former speed skater who won a bronze medal at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. The ground is in Hokkaido’s 9th district.

The 9th district has been former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s iron foothold since the change to a single-seat constituency system in 1996. Mr. Horii, then a member of the Hokkaido assembly, entered the race there as an LDP-certified candidate, and preliminary surveys showed that he had overwhelmingly defeated Mr. Hatoyama. Before the election, Hatoyama announced his retirement without a fight, and Horii’s name recognition rose dramatically in the political world, saying, “I forced the former prime minister into retirement. However, in the 2009 general election, House of Councilors member Muneo Suzuki (The Japan Innovation Party), who is very popular in Hokkaido, turned his vote to Tatsumaru Yamaoka of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, losing the primary election and being restored proportionally.