Japan lawmaker Ikeda indicted, bringing ruling party slush fund cases to 10

Tokyo prosecutors indicted a former ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker on Friday for allegedly failing to report millions of yen in political fundraising revenue, concluding an investigation into a slush fund scandal that has rocked the party led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.The indictment of House of Representatives member Yoshitaka Ikeda, 57, rounded off a series of criminal cases against 10 lawmakers and accountants over violating the political funds control law. His secretary, Kazuhiro Kakinuma, 45, was also indicted.The prosecutors, however, have not built cases against seven …READ FULL ARTICLE