Written on May 3, 2019, this text examines the court record of the Kiyomi Tsujimoto secretary salary fraud case, discussing in detail the method of defrauding public funds, the malicious nature of the conduct, repeated false explanations, and the betrayal involved in abusing the trust placed in a Diet member.
Through the language of the Tokyo District Court judgment, it makes clear that this was a grave case betraying the public trust and that the defendant’s criminal responsibility was heavy.

2019-05-03
The defendant (present-day Minshintō figure Kiyomi Tsujimoto), by abusing even the deep trust placed in a Diet member of this kind, calmly submitted documents containing false content and thereby carried out each of the crimes in this case.

This is a chapter I published on 2018-05-11 under the title, “In the Kiyomi Tsujimoto arrest, resignation, and trial, it was said that this was nothing less than a malicious act of betrayal directly opposing the trust and mandate of the people.”
What follows is an article I discovered on the internet a little while ago.
Kiyomi Tsujimoto.
Guilty verdict, two years’ imprisonment, suspended for five years.
Court record of the secretary salary fraud case.
Tokyo District Court, Criminal Division No. 2.
In the Kiyomi Tsujimoto arrest, resignation, and trial, it was said that it was “a malicious act of betrayal directly opposing the trust and mandate of the people.”
Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō is desperately spreading the claim that she is suffering from slander.
But her true nature and actual reality are as follows.
In the court record it is written that [Defendant A (Minshintō figure Kiyomi Tsujimoto) is malicious, a liar, extremely criminal in nature, and possesses an extremely low awareness that what she did was a crime].
Even now, while facing difficulties and carrying out their duties without regard for danger to their lives.
Kiyomi Tsujimoto insults and obstructs Self-Defense Force personnel and American soldiers.
Toward the disaster victims who are trying to overcome grief and suffering.
Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō even declares that Their Majesties, who themselves kneel and show concern for disaster victims, are “unnecessary.”
Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō does not bow to the Emperor, even though even Mizuho Fukushima lowers her head.
She said, “Kim Jong-il is the person I most revere, the imperial system should be abolished, and the Emperor should be sent to Ise or somewhere like that and turned into some sort of special corporation.
A public interest foundation or a religious corporation would do.
And we are making plans to turn the Imperial Palace into Central Park, to build an Asia Peace Memorial Hall or something like that, and invite students from Asia.
North Korea is a paradise in the North, and it is only natural that the abductees do not return.”
She also wrote, “How unsuitable the military as an organization is for humanitarian assistance.”
“There is no need for the Self-Defense Forces,” “visiting Yasukuni is like visiting Hitler’s grave,” declares Defendant A
(Minshintō figure Kiyomi Tsujimoto).
Kiyomi Tsujimoto, when you say you are “suffering,” do you never think of the anguish in the hearts of the abductees’ families, the Self-Defense Forces and their families, Their Majesties the Emperor and the Imperial Family, the many citizens of Japan, and the abductees who still have not returned, all caused by your words and actions.
Are not your heartless words and actions something worse than slander.
In the court record, words such as the following are used over and over again: “By abusing the deep trust placed in a Diet member, the manner of the offense constitutes a betrayal and can only be called malicious.
The words and actions of Defendant A (Minshintō figure Kiyomi Tsujimoto) should also be regarded as acts of destroying evidence in order to escape criminal responsibility.
The circumstances after the offense, in which Defendant A (Minshintō figure Kiyomi Tsujimoto) repeatedly made false excuses, can only be called malicious.”
The accusation against you here is real, unlike yours…
After all, this is a fraud case in which a total of more than 18.74 million yen in public funds was defrauded from the House of Representatives.
Defendant A (Minshintō figure Kiyomi Tsujimoto), who received a prison sentence in the secretary salary fraud case, had explained to the media that Takako Doi advised her to do it and that she only followed that advice.
But the court record repeatedly states the following.
Defendant A
(present-day Minshintō figure Kiyomi Tsujimoto).
It is difficult to believe this.
Defendant A (present-day Minshintō figure Kiyomi Tsujimoto) merely said, “Hmm,” and let it pass, and even afterward, although this was an unmistakable criminal act of fraud and she was advised to correct the contents of the above press conference and resign as a Diet member, she did not immediately follow this advice.
Her words and actions should also be regarded as acts of destroying evidence in order to escape criminal responsibility.
The circumstances after the offense, in which she repeated false excuses, can only be called malicious.
The malicious character of each offense in this case, the seriousness of the result, the easy and self-centered motive, the broad use of the defrauded money and partial accumulation of assets, the lending of account names in each offense, the dispersal of funds among multiple bank accounts, the extreme maliciousness, the connection with PKO, and the diversion of funds there as well.
In light of the leading role played by Defendant A (present-day Minshintō figure Kiyomi Tsujimoto), the scale of the illegal profit she gained, and the maliciousness of the circumstances after the offense, the court concludes that this case is grave as a matter and that Defendant A’s criminal responsibility is heavy.”
When she excuses herself by saying this or that was all slander, is that not simply her habitual tendency to lie.
The abduction matter, the comfort women remarks, the release of the kidnapper Shin Gwang-su, Akira Kitagawa who was a top Japanese Red Army figure, the support organization in the place where Fusako Shigenobu hid, Mamoru Yoshida who was arrested for concealing Fusako Shigenobu and Akira Kitagawa, all were executives in Kiyomi Tsujimoto’s Takatsuki support association.
Is this not exactly the corrupt nature of China, South Korea, and North Korea themselves.

Judgment rendered on February 12, Heisei 16.
Tokyo District Court, Heisei 15 Criminal (Wa) No. 2860, fraud case.
Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō) is sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
Omitted.

Reasons.
(Facts constituting the crime.)
Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō) was a person who had served as a member of the House of Representatives.
Omitted.

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Part 1.
The defendant, in conspiracy with C, who had been the publicly funded second secretary of Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō), and D, who was listed in the registry of certified persons for the examination and employment of policy secretaries for Diet members, around November 18, Heisei 8, at the Secretariat of the House of Representatives located at a-b-c-d, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, with respect to E and others, assistant section chief in the Members’ Division of the General Affairs Department of the Secretariat, although in truth this was nothing more than borrowing a name and Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō) had neither the intention to hire D as her own policy secretary nor the fact of having hired D, made it appear as though such intention and fact existed, and submitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives false documents in content, including an application for consent to employ a Diet secretary, a notification of secretary employment, and a résumé, stating that D had been hired as Defendant A’s policy secretary as of October 31 of that year, thereby causing E and others to misunderstand the matter, and thus, as stated in Attached Table 1, during the period from November 29 of that year to March 14, Heisei 9, on approximately nine occasions, caused the House of Representatives to transfer and remit, under the pretext of paying D’s salary, a total of 4,489,304 yen into an ordinary deposit account in D’s name at the House of Representatives branch of the then F Bank Co., Ltd., managed by C and others, and thereby by deceit caused the delivery of property.
Omitted.

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Part 2.
The defendant, in conspiracy with the above C, who had been the publicly funded first secretary of Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō), and G, who was listed in the registry of certified persons for the examination and employment of policy secretaries for Diet members, around April 10, Heisei 9, at the above Secretariat of the House of Representatives, with respect to E and others, although in truth this was nothing more than borrowing a name and Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō) had neither the intention to hire G as her own policy secretary nor the fact of having hired G, made it appear as though such intention and fact existed, and submitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives false documents in content, including an application for consent to employ a Diet secretary, a notification of secretary employment, and a résumé, stating that G had been hired as Defendant A’s policy secretary as of April 10 of that month, thereby causing E and others to misunderstand the matter, and thus, as stated in Attached Table 2, during the period from April 25 of that month to December 10, Heisei 10, on approximately twenty-seven occasions, caused the House of Representatives to transfer and remit, under the pretext of paying G’s salary, a total of 14,251,222 yen into an ordinary deposit account in G’s name at the House of Representatives branch of F Bank, managed by C and others, and thereby by deceit caused the delivery of property.

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(Reasons for sentencing.)

1. Outline of the case.
   This case is a fraud matter in which Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō), who was then an incumbent member of the House of Representatives, and Defendant B, who was a policy secretary of another member of the House of Representatives, conspired with C, who had been a publicly funded secretary of Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō), and D or G, who were listed in the registry of certified persons for the examination and employment of policy secretaries, and by the method of borrowing the names of those certified persons, although in truth Defendant A had neither the intention to hire them as her own policy secretary nor the fact of having hired them, made it appear as though such intention and fact existed, and under the pretext of receiving policy secretary salaries defrauded a total of more than 18.74 million yen in public funds from the House of Representatives over a period of more than two years.
2. As to the malicious character of the manner of offense and the seriousness of the result.
   Omitted.
   Since the salaries of publicly funded secretaries are borne by the national treasury, thereby increasing the financial burden on the state.
   Omitted.
   (2) Malicious character of the manner of offense.
   Although the treatment had been such that documents were accepted without inquiring into the actual working reality, the defendant
   (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō),
   by abusing even this deep trust placed in Diet members, calmly submitted documents containing false content and thereby carried out each of the offenses in this case.
   Accordingly, from every point of view, the manner of offense in this case is a betrayal directly opposed to the mandate and trust of the people and can only be called malicious.
   Omitted.
   After the fee for lending the names had been transferred, the remaining balance was transferred into another bank account likewise managed by A’s office (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō), namely, at first an ordinary deposit account in the name of K at the House of Representatives branch of F Bank, and from January 27, Heisei 10 onward, an ordinary deposit account in the name of L at the same branch
   (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “pool account”).
   In addition to the defrauded money in this case, namely policy secretary salaries, the pool account also received the salaries of the publicly funded first and second secretaries of Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō).
   b.
   From the pool account, part of the funds was transferred into a money trust account in the name of K at the House of Representatives branch of F Bank, opened in January Heisei 9 and likewise managed by A’s office
   (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō),
   and by the end of that year the savings balance had reached more than 5.8 million yen.
   From January Heisei 10 onward, these funds were moved into a money trust account and a savings deposit account in the name of L at the same branch, likewise managed by A’s office (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō)
   (hereinafter these two accounts together with the above K-name money trust account are collectively referred to as the “savings accounts”).
   Thereafter as well, funds were successively transferred from the pool account to the savings accounts, and by the end of Heisei 10 the savings balance in those accounts totaled more than 11.32 million yen, of which more than 7.32 million yen had been deposited from the pool account.
   From Heisei 11 onward, there were also many expenditures that could not be called personnel expenses for policy-planning staff, such as part-time wages for helping in the election campaign of a candidate for the Osaka Prefectural Assembly of the same party, rent for the Osaka office, printing costs, video production costs, and even various expenses for Defendant A’s election office.
   d.
   Meanwhile, A’s office (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō) also managed an ordinary deposit account in A’s name at the House of Representatives branch of F Bank
   (hereinafter the “office expense account”),
   mainly for paying office expenses such as gas charges and printing charges, and into this account were directly deposited Defendant A’s Diet salary, communication and transportation allowances, and stay allowances, and, through other accounts, also deposited legislative office expenses from the affiliated party, party subsidies, support association fees from the support association, donations, and so forth.
   From the office expense account, withdrawals were made in the name of salary into a bank account personally managed by Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō), and the remaining balance after paying office expenses and the like began, from April Heisei 9, to be transferred to a comprehensive account in A’s name
   (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō)
   at the head office of M Bank Co., Ltd. at that time
   (hereinafter the “M account”),
   and by the end of December Heisei 10, the savings balance in the M account had reached 5.5 million yen, and this savings balance was maintained until around Heisei 14.
   It was intended as preparation for future expenditures in opening the Osaka office and in Defendant A’s House of Representatives election, but J states that the savings accounts were savings begun as funds for opening the Osaka office in preparation for future elections, and that the M account was savings for Defendant A’s future election funds and, in the event of defeat, for Defendant A’s resident tax, immediate living expenses, and later activities.
   (u)
   And the content of J’s statements is objectively supported by evidence such as passbooks for the bank accounts that J himself managed, and their accuracy is thereby guaranteed.
   Moreover, J had been active together with Defendant A (present-day Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Minshintō) in the non-profit organization
   (NPO)
   called “P” from the period when Defendant A worked there full time, and immediately after Defendant A was elected to the Diet, at her particular request, abandoned his former profession as a judicial scrivener and became her secretary, first as a private secretary and later as a publicly funded second secretary, becoming deeply involved in the operation of A’s office and related matters.
   Even in light of the content of his statements, there is absolutely no sign of any circumstance that would lead him deliberately to make statements disadvantageous to Defendant A.
   Accordingly, the credibility of J’s above statements is fully to be affirmed.