<figure id="attachment_394115" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 682px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-394115"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="6281a740"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/67fac3f025ad79438db576751349dcce.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-394115" class="wp-caption-text">Yoshiba had challenged national politics three times. (The photo was taken when she ran for the Party of Hope in the &#8217;17 lower house election.</figcaption></figure>
<p>A former female city councilor, who became a topic of conversation on the Internet for being &#8220;cute,&#8221; was convicted of a crime.</p>
<p>On October 7, the Fukuoka District Court sentenced Mika Yoshiba, 44, a former Neyagawa City Councilor in Osaka Prefecture, to 10 years in prison and to pay 198 million yen in additional fines. Yoshiba conspired with other members of the crime syndicate. The defendant is alleged to have taken advantage of a loan program for organizations whose performance had deteriorated due to the new coronavirus, and swindled them out of large sums of money.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> The prosecution sought 10 years in prison on the grounds that &#8220;the defendant played an important and indispensable role in the fraud,&#8221; while the defense argued that &#8220;the defendant played an important and indispensable role in the fraud. The defense, on the other hand, pleaded not guilty, saying, &#8216;The defendant was not aware that he was involved in the fraud. Yoshiba also stated, &#8220;I did not commit fraud. However, the evidence did not allow Yoshiba&#8217;s case to go forward.</span></p>
<p>In an article distributed on August 16, 2010, Friday reported in detail on the huge fraud case in which the defendant Yoshiba was allegedly involved. We would like to look back at Yoshiba&#8217;s bewitching true face and his surprising behavior that even led to the release of his own photo book (some content has been corrected).</p>
<h2>I want you to pay me half of the loan amount.</h2>
<figure id="attachment_259691" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 453px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-259691"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="dd0aa600"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/08/IMG_0152.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-259691" class="wp-caption-text">Yoshiba participated in various events.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> People say that Haru is the actress who resembles her.</span></p>
<p>A former female city council member who was arrested often told people around her that she was Haru.</p>
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<p>On August 1, 2010, the Fukuoka Prefectural Police arrested five men and women on suspicion of fraud. They were suspected of cheating large sums of cash by giving false explanations about a public loan program to support medical facilities whose business performance had deteriorated due to the new coronavirus.</p>
<p>Five men and women, including Yoshiba, were arrested. They were suspected of cheating medical facilities whose business performance had deteriorated due to the new coronavirus out of large sums of cash by giving false explanations about the public loan program.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The victim was Company A, a welfare facility located in Sakai City, Osaka. The five members of the group made a false proposal to Company A from July 2008, and offered to use the &#8216;support fund for dealing with the new type of coronavirus. They said, &#8220;We will be able to provide you with a loan by a special method. We will not be civilly liable if you do not repay the loan, so we want you to pay us half of the loan amount.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> In reality, the loan required repayment of the loan. Company A, believing the false explanation, received a loan of about 120 million yen from the authorities, and the five-member group cheated them out of half of the loan, about 60 million yen, under the guise of a business consignment fee. They have repeated similar crimes by holding seminars, etc., and the total amount of damage is estimated to exceed 1 billion yen.</span></p>
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<h2>A congressman&#8217;s badge as a cell phone strap</h2>
<p>From the beginning, Yoshiba denied committing the crime, saying that he had not received a single yen and that he was just caught up in it. However, Yoshiba has been known as a &#8220;disturbing city councilor&#8221; since he was first elected in 2007.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> She released a photo book titled &#8220;Mika Yoshiba&#8221; under the guise of raising political funds. The 500 copies of the book, priced at 1,000 yen each, quickly sold out and were reprinted.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> She ran an event management company in Tokyo and must have been quite prosperous. He often drove a yellow Mercedes-Benz to the office. Perhaps he was particular about his badge, but he wore it not on his chest but on the strap of his cell phone, which was decorated in a flashy way.</span></p>
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<p>An acquaintance of Yoshiba&#8217;s told us, &#8220;He is dead now, but he was involved with food.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He was adored by the president of a food company, who has since passed away. The president took him to various events in Tokyo and Osaka. It seems that he also interacted with the head of the entertainment agency. At his birthday party, I took the microphone and congratulated him.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Yoshiba was seen in a variety of places, from the entertainment world to the political world, and was expanding his friendships. However, he has completely discredited himself with troubles unbecoming of a member of the Diet.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_259649" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1000px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-259649"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="f87eca26"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/08/kurojanpa.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-259649" class="wp-caption-text">Defendant Yoshiba participated in various events.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_259650" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 302px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-259650"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="eca7e574"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/08/karaoke.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-259650" class="wp-caption-text">At a birthday party for the president of an entertainment agency, Yoshiba held a microphone and offered words of congratulations (some images have been doctored).</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_259651" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1000px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-259651"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="7bfda21a"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/08/ajiafu.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-259651" class="wp-caption-text">Yoshiba at various events</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_259692" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 537px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-259692"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="fe8dc02d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/08/IMG_0103.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-259692" class="wp-caption-text">Convicted defendant Yoshiba</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_259693" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1000px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-259693"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="c72916b4"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/08/DSC08585.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-259693" class="wp-caption-text">Sometimes he even held the microphone himself.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_259653" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 606px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-259653"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="8be8d3d6"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/08/kinokohat.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-259653" class="wp-caption-text">He had a wide range of friendships.</figcaption></figure>
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 A former female city councilor was arrested and convicted in a fraud case in which the total amount of damage is said to be more than 1 billion yen. She arrived at the city council meeting in a yellow Mercedes Benz. We would like to introduce her bewitching true face in a treasured photograph in which she described herself as "Haru-like.

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