Prosecutors said Thursday they decided not to indict former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over his camp's spending of millions of yen for dinner receptions held for supporters, ending their investigation into a scandal that came to light last year.A Tokyo court fined one of Abe's state-paid secretaries for failing to keep legally required financial records related to the dinner functions. Prosecutors had sought a summary indictment for the secretary, Hiroyuki Haikawa, a simplified proceeding that typically skips court proceedings.Since the scandal came to light in November last year, the former…READ FULL ARTICLE
