'Voter Hospitality' Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Not Prosecuted, Undergoing Appropriateness Review

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Dong-hoon] The Prosecution Review Commission will decide whether the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s Special Investigation Division’s decision not to prosecute former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was accused of providing entertainment to voters, was appropriate.

Major Japanese media reported that the civic group that filed the complaint against former Prime Minister Abe requested a review of the non-prosecution decision by the Prosecution Review Commission on the 28th.

The Japanese Prosecution Review Commission, composed of 11 randomly selected voters under the Public Offices Election Act, is a system that checks the prosecution’s exclusive right to indict. If the commission evaluates the appropriateness of the prosecution’s non-prosecution decision and issues an indictment opinion, a reinvestigation is conducted.

If a non-prosecution decision is made again after the reinvestigation and the commission issues an indictment opinion once more, it leads to a compulsory prosecution.

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