Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday searched the Tokyo office of Yoshitaka Ikeda, a House of Representatives lawmaker belonging to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction, amid a political fundraising scandal.The faction, formerly led by slain Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is alleged to have failed to declare hundreds of millions of yen in revenue from its fundraisin parties in political funding reports and created slush funds.Among members of the faction, Ikeda is suspected of having received more than 40 million yen ($280,000) over five years through 2022, for which the statute o…READ FULL ARTICLE
