Former Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly Chairman “Gived cash at the request of Liberal Democratic Party Prefectural Assembly leaders”

While local newspapers and other media have reported that members of the Fukuoka Prefectural Assembly who served as chairman and vice-chairman paid large sums of cash to members of the Liberal Democratic Party's prefectural group before taking office, one of the members held a press conference on the 7th and stated that he had given over 18 million yen in cash in response to their demands.