Tokyo, Feb. 20 (Jiji Press)–Tokyo police on Friday arrested three individuals, including a company executive who ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic Party for the People candidate in the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election, for allegedly paying campaign workers, investigative sources told Jiji Press. The defeated candidate, Nobuko Irie, 63, and two others are suspected of paying a total of 270,000 yen in cash to five women in their 10s to 20s as compensation for election campaign work sometime between late January and early February, in violation of the public offices election law, according to the sources. Irie ran for the opposition party in the Tokyo No. 7 constituency in the election for the lower chamber of Japan’s parliament. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
EXCLUSIVE: Defeated DPFP Candidate Arrested for Paying Campaign Workers
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