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Japan's Ruling Party Turns Up Heat Over Livedoor e-Mail Fiasco

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party went on the offensive against opposition allegations that a son of the LDP chief had received secret campaign cash from the founder of scandal-hit Internet firm Livedoor.

In a statement in parliament on February 16, Democractic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata claimed that Livedoor founder Takafumi Horie sent an e-mail instructing a 30 million yen (256,000-dollar) payment to a son of LDP secretary general Tsutomu Takebe.

Arguing the e-mail was "almost certainly fake," LDP deputy secretary general Ichiro Aisawa told public broadcaster NHK on Sunday that the opposition now "has quite heavy political responsibility".

posted by Fergie @ 2/26/2006 10:01:00 AM