On March 3 1989 and March 3 1 day, Asahi Shimbun once again took the lead in publishing a report entitled "Likulute Company buys 20 million yuan banquet vouchers for Noboru takeshita", directly pointing the finger at Noboru takeshita. According to this report, 1 May 2, 9871,1At 6: 00 p.m., Noboru takeshita supporters of Noboru takeshita and Hotan Middle School held a banquet entitled "Encouraging Noboru takeshita, Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party" at the Prince Hotel in Tokyo Pool Park. Tickets for this banquet are as high as 30,000 yen, and total sales amount to 2 1 100 million yen. Regarding banquet vouchers, the Japanese autonomous province explained: "As long as the price of banquet vouchers is within the scope of social common sense and the number of tickets purchased is appropriate based on attendance, it will not become a donation in the Political Funds Law." On the contrary, buying a large number of banquet tickets that you can't attend should be regarded as "donation". At the banquet held at the Prince Hotel, more than 60,000 tickets were sold, but the attendance was only 1.3 million. From this point of view, the fundraising nature of the banquet is quite obvious, and it was at this banquet that Noboru takeshita declared that "contributing five feet is my last mission", which actually showed his determination to run for president of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Since the purchase of this banquet ticket should be regarded as a political contribution, the purchaser should abide by the relevant provisions of the Political Funds Law. 1May 1987, the capital of Likulute Company was 654.38+062 billion yen. According to the Political Funds Law, its annual donations to political parties, political funds groups and politicians are at most 6.5438+0.5 million yen, and donations to other political groups are at most 7.5 million yen. However, Likulute Company bought 700 tickets for the "Encouragement Meeting" in Noboru takeshita at a time, and spent 20 million yen, which exceeded all the above limits. In addition, Japan's Political Funds Law also stipulates that a donor's total donation to "candidates for public office" and "other political groups" is at most 6.5438+0.5 million yen a year, and Likulute Company's donation to "encouragement society" also greatly exceeds this provision.
A wave of unrest, another wave. On April 5th, 1989, the Japanese Daily News published another news about Noboru takeshita accepting the donation from Likulute Company, with the title "Likulute once bought 30 million yen banquet vouchers for the banquet organized by Noboru takeshita supporters". According to the report, 1987, in May, Noboru takeshita's support organization "Iwate Long-term Policy Symposium" held a banquet in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, and Lijiulute Company invested another 30 million yen to buy banquet vouchers. In addition, the report also said that on the second day after the banquet, Noboru takeshita had a golf match with Iwate's long-term policy forum members at the stadium operated by Likulute Company, and then Noboru takeshita flew back to Tokyo by helicopter of Likulute Company, and all expenses of this trip were borne by Likulute Company. On April 5, the Daily News also published an article entitled "Socialist Party Chairman advocates the establishment of a" national unity regime ",reporting the news that Socialist Party Chairman Doi asked Noboru takeshita's cabinet to resign.
Just when Noboru takeshita was worried about the banquet tickets, the Japanese news agency published an article "Discovering New Facts" on April 7 1989, revealing that Likulute Company had also provided Noboru takeshita with 25 million yen in cash. In the afternoon, Japan's four major opposition parties held their first summit in more than two years. The leaders of the opposition parties agreed that "the current situation is an unprecedented important moment in the post-war political history" and decided to take joint action to "reverse the cabinet." The next day, there was also information against Noboru takeshita in the LDP. Komoto Toshio, a senior Japanese politician and former Minister of State, delivered a speech in Xialou Market in Ibaraki Prefecture, demanding to seek a new heart before the Senate election, which was actually a suggestion to Noboru takeshita to step down.
Noboru takeshita's cabinet is at the end of its tether, but the People's Assembly, the prime minister's private advisor, has come up with a clever plan to turn things around. "People of insight" headed by Guan Lin, former director of the Legislative Affairs Bureau of the Cabinet, suggested that Noboru takeshita "set an example" and confessed his relationship with the Li case in order to get the forgiveness of the people. At this time, Noboru takeshita can only accept suggestions and treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.
1989 April 1 1 At 9: 30 in the morning, the Budget Committee of the Japanese House of Representatives began to hold talks. At the meeting, Noboru takeshita explained his money relationship with Likulute Company. In addition to making some supplementary explanations about the well-known situation, Noboru takeshita also took the initiative to explain some new situations. For example, in 1985 and 1986, he also received a donation of 20 million yen, and in May 1987, he bought a banquet ticket of 20 million yen at the "encouragement meeting" except the head office of Likulute. According to Noboru takeshita himself, he and his cronies got 1.5 1 billion yen from Likulute Company. Although this figure far exceeded people's expectations, the Prime Minister's "decisive behavior" did win the public's understanding, because Noboru takeshita said that he had a political and moral responsibility to accept the donation from Likulute Company. In this way, the cadres of the Zhuxia faction all said that "the Prime Minister's own problems are very clear." Chief Cabinet Secretary Obuchi also said, "In this way, the investigation of the Prime Minister himself has come to an end."
But Noboru takeshita's temporary relief can only be regarded as an episode to end the relationship between Noboru takeshita's cabinet and Congress, and the whole transaction between Noboru takeshita's cabinet and Congress has just entered the topic. As the government is eager for the parliament to pass the budget for the first year of Heisei (1989), the opposition party indicated that it would not consider the budget unless the Chief Cabinet Secretary of Nakasone Yasuhiro or Noboru takeshita resigned.
The Likurut case took place during Nakasone Yasuhiro's administration. Of course, he is responsible for government corruption, and Nakasone is not innocent at all. He once bought 29,000 unlisted shares of Likulute Company in the name of two secretaries, and sold 23,000 of them, making a profit of 63.85 million yen. In addition, Likulute Company also provided Nakasone with a political contribution of 35 million yen, and it cost 107 10000 yen to buy his banquet ticket, totaling 1 100000 yen. Nakasone admitted that he did take the money. However, there is one thing that Zeng Gen always refuses to admit. 1In the summer of 1988, Likulute Company took out 35 million yen in cash, which attracted 15 influential LDP members, including Nakasone Yasuhiro and his eldest son, Senator Nakasone Hong Wen. The details are as follows: 1 On August 20th, 988, Likulute Company paid Nakasone and his son cheques of 5 million yen and110,000 yen respectively. However, the cheque was returned to Likulute Company. It is not clear when and how to return it. Many people suspect that Nakasone and his son returned the check in a hurry for fear that it would be exposed after the bribery incident of Likulute Company to Socialist Party member Saiyano Sukeyoshi was exposed. "I have no idea about it," Nakasone said in a very firm tone. What is the truth? People naturally demand that Nakasone be summoned to testify in parliament and make everything clear.
However, Nakasone Yasuhiro has always been a central figure. He believes that accepting an arraignment is tantamount to admitting his innocence, which is detrimental to his dignity as the highest adviser of the Liberal Democratic Party and a former prime minister. In addition, Nakasone is also worried that once the arraignment begins, political dignitaries will be taken to the witness stand one by one, so he said "resolutely refused" to arraignment. On the other hand, the opposition party does not show weakness. They said that they would not participate in the government budget of 1989 as long as Nakasone did not testify in Congress. This makes Noboru takeshita helpless. If we rely on Nakasone, the budget will certainly fail. However, the new fiscal year has started from April 1, so it is impossible for the government to operate on a 50-day temporary budget for a long time. If the opposition forces Nakasone to accept the arraignment, Noboru takeshita will lose the support of Nakasone faction and collapse. The bamboo cabinet in a dilemma is simply a dead end!
However, when it rains, the profit case has actually made new progress. 1On April 4, 989, Asahi Shimbun published a report that Likulute Company paid 9 million yen to Mrs. Abe as a consultant. According to the report, in the two years and seven months before the exposure of the Li case, that is, from1February 1986 to1August 1988, Likulut paid 300,000 yen of consulting fees to the wife of the Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party, Abe Zhaohui, totaling 9 million yen. At the press conference that day, Abe had to admit this fact, but he stressed that he and his wife knew nothing about it before being interviewed by reporters. Abe declared: "My position is busy, and all financial matters are entrusted to the secretary. The consultant fee is handled by the secretary of Shimizu Ersanfu. The fact that consulting fees have become my family income does not exist. " However, Abe added, "In any case, as Secretary-General, I feel deeply responsible." Push the direct responsibility to the secretary, and then pretend to be willing to take the blame for the subordinates-at this time, who can Abe fool with this poor performance?
A week later, on April 2 1 day, the negotiations between the Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition party on the budget broke down, and Shinzo Abe, who was a needle between the ruling and opposition parties, was quickly admitted to the hospital, and Noboru takeshita's cabinet finally came to the brink of collapse. On April 22nd, the Japanese media gave Noboru takeshita a final blow. On this day, Japanese newspapers reported on the front page that when he was running for prime minister in 1987 Noboru takeshita, his secretary Aoki Yiping borrowed a huge sum of 50 million yen from Likulute Company. It was not a big deal to borrow money to pay back the money. However, since this incident was exposed in Noboru takeshita's "completely open" relationship with Likulute Company, and he vowed that no new situation would be revealed, what face could the Prime Minister have?
Japanese people are extremely indignant at "politicians' jokes", and the call for Noboru takeshita to step down is even louder. 1on April 25th, 989, Noboru takeshita was forced to announce his resignation.
After Noboru takeshita resigned, no one dared to ask for the post of Prime Minister, which had been hotly contested. At that time, people hoped to appoint a relatively clean Ito Masayoshi, but Ito didn't want to clean up the mess. He was ill on the pretext of being ill, but he refused to leave the mountain after a long time. The helpless Liberal Democratic Party is struggling to find Unosuke, who has nothing to do with Lee's case, to succeed Noboru takeshita as prime minister. 1June 2, 989, Sasuke Uno took office. However, within a month, the prime minister, Yukio Uno, who is "both civil and military" and "versatile" and has a shallow relationship with the financial sector and a deep relationship with the cultural sector, broke the "peach scandal" with geisha. 1On July 23, 989, Japan held a triennial Senate election, and the Liberal Democratic Party was defeated. The next day, Uno announced that he was "fully responsible" for the LDP's fiasco in the Senate election, and he took the step of resigning.
A profit case brought down two governments and disturbed the Japanese nation, which is completely contrary to the Japanese government's desire to hope for peace and stability at home and abroad by taking advantage of regime change. The reason is really money politics, because politics is not cheap. This is really: the wind of corruption hit the East, and the first year of Heisei was not peaceful!