Hisayasu Nagata being questioned at the Lower House Disciplinary Committee on March 24

Following a session of the Lower House Disciplinary Committee, committee members unanimously agreed to summon Nishizawa for sworn testimony April 4.

During the committee's two-hour question-and-answer session, Nagata admitted he had not checked the credibility of the e-mail -- which was made to look like Horie had ordered staff to transfer ¥30 million to Takebe's son before the September general election -- sufficiently before presenting it to a Budget Committee meeting in February.

The Japan Times Weekly: April 1, 2006
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