Foreign Minister Kono speaks on Matsuo's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono speaks before reporters at the Foreign Ministry on March 10 on the arrest of former logistics chief Katsutoshi Matsuo on suspicion of fraud by swindling the government out of 42 million yen in secret state funds since 1997. Matsuo, 55, received a total of 988 million yen from the Cabinet Secretariat's discretionary funds for diplomatic activities and allegedly pocketed the 42 million yen by padding expenses such as hotel bills for premiers' overseas trips, police said.

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