Finance ministry's Hirata sold stocks despite ban on trading

Finance ministry's Hirata sold stocks despite ban on trading

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Finance Minister Koichi Hirata is surrounded by reporters after a House of Councillors Budget Committee session on March 26. A document showed that Hirata sold a massive number of shares of a plasterboard maker in off-market trading in early March despite a ban on stock trading under the ethics code for politically appointed ministers.

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