LDP Secretary General Ibuki received funds from deficit-ridden company

   A Liberal Democratic Party branch headed by LDP Secretary General Ibuki Bunmei received 120,000 yen of political donations every year between 2000 and 2006 from a hotel in Kyoto that ran deficits for nine years from 1997, according to this office’s funds reports.

   The Political Fund Control Law prohibits politicians from receiving donations from a company that runs deficits for more than three years in a row.

   Ibuki’s office on September 28 told Akahata that it will return the money to the hotel.                                                                                - Akahata, September 29, 2007