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Court rejects Ozawa's request for suspension of indictment procedure
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TOKYO, Oct. 18 Kyodo -
The Tokyo District Court rejected on Monday a request by ruling party kingpin
Ichiro Ozawa for suspension of judicial procedures in connection with his
mandatory indictment over alleged involvement in false financial reporting by
his political fund management body.
In suits filed with the court Friday, the 68-year-old Ozawa, a former leader of
the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, sought to nullify the Sept. 14 decision
by an independent judicial panel of 11 citizens that he should be indicted over
the funds scandal. He also asked the court not to pick a team of lawyers who
would act as prosecutors to indict him.
Ahead of Monday's Tokyo court decision, according to sources close to the
matter, the government submitted its written opinion seeking the court's
rejection of Ozawa's suits, saying the suits should be battled under the
criminal justice system.
The move was apparently taken as an alternative procedure while the court will
not hold closed-door hearings on the suits.
With the rejection, the Tokyo court is expected to select the team of lawyers
by Friday, paving the way for judicial procedures on his mandatory indictment.
Ozawa intends to appeal the decision immediately, his lawyers said Monday.
In seeking the suspension of indictment procedure, Ozawa's lawyers took issue
with the panel, in its second decision, stating that Ozawa's Rikuzankai funds
management body failed to enter 400 million yen borrowed from him in its
funding report as the source of financing to purchase a tract of land in Tokyo.
But Ozawa's lawyers noted that the citizens' group did not touch on such a
failure in its complaint, insisting that referring to something that was not
the subject of a complaint was misuse of power on the part of the judicial
panel.
They also said the failure was not incorporated in the panel's first decision,
arguing that the panel illegally reached the decision to indict Ozawa without
examining related facts twice, as required by the law. They also said indicting
someone based on such an unlawful decision would violate the Constitution.
==Kyodo
2010-10-18 23:38:10
TOKYO, Oct. 18 Kyodo -
The Tokyo District Court rejected on Monday a request by ruling party kingpin
Ichiro Ozawa for suspension of judicial procedures in connection with his
mandatory indictment over alleged involvement in false financial reporting by
his political fund management body.
In suits filed with the court Friday, the 68-year-old Ozawa, a former leader of
the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, sought to nullify the Sept. 14 decision
by an independent judicial panel of 11 citizens that he should be indicted over
the funds scandal. He also asked the court not to pick a team of lawyers who
would act as prosecutors to indict him.
Ahead of Monday's Tokyo court decision, according to sources close to the
matter, the government submitted its written opinion seeking the court's
rejection of Ozawa's suits, saying the suits should be battled under the
criminal justice system.
The move was apparently taken as an alternative procedure while the court will
not hold closed-door hearings on the suits.
With the rejection, the Tokyo court is expected to select the team of lawyers
by Friday, paving the way for judicial procedures on his mandatory indictment.
Ozawa intends to appeal the decision immediately, his lawyers said Monday.
In seeking the suspension of indictment procedure, Ozawa's lawyers took issue
with the panel, in its second decision, stating that Ozawa's Rikuzankai funds
management body failed to enter 400 million yen borrowed from him in its
funding report as the source of financing to purchase a tract of land in Tokyo.
But Ozawa's lawyers noted that the citizens' group did not touch on such a
failure in its complaint, insisting that referring to something that was not
the subject of a complaint was misuse of power on the part of the judicial
panel.
They also said the failure was not incorporated in the panel's first decision,
arguing that the panel illegally reached the decision to indict Ozawa without
examining related facts twice, as required by the law. They also said indicting
someone based on such an unlawful decision would violate the Constitution.
==Kyodo
2010-10-18 23:38:10
