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DPJ apologizes for fake Horie e-mail

DPJ's Hisayasu Nagata apologizing at a news conference held at the Diet on Feb. 28

Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata apologized Feb. 28 for failing to prove allegations he raised in the Diet that Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie made a shady fund transfer of ¥30 million to a son of Liberal-Democratic Party Secretary-General Tsutomu Takebe.

The largest opposition party has come under fire for failing to authenticate an e-mail Nagata alleged was internal instructions by Horie to staff members to transfer the funds.

The DPJ said in a statement the same day that it has determined based on an in-house probe that the e-mail was fake. It had been earlier reported that a freelance journalist had actually sent and received the e-mail.

"(The party) has made a major mistake regarding the e-mail and we owe the general public an apology," DPJ Secretary-General Yukio Hatoyama said.

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