Prosecutors search offices of LDP factions mired in funds scandal

Prosecutors search offices of LDP factions mired in funds scandal

Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation squad are surrounded by camera crews and reporters as they head to an office of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's biggest faction once led by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Dec. 19, 2023, in Tokyo, to conduct a search related to a political funds scandal.

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