Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Chief of scandal-hit school repeats Abe donation claim under oath

Yasunori Kagoike, chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, holds up a faxed reply he said was from Saeko Tani, a government aide of Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during his sworn testimony at the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives in the Diet in Tokyo on March 23, 2017. Kagoike, the central figure of a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, repeated his earlier claim that the prime minister donated 1 million yen ($8,900) to the organization. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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