The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Hyogo prefectural government’s third-party committee has concluded that a senior official leaked personal information of the late whistleblower who accused Gov. Motohiko Saito of power harassment, according to sources in the prefecture.
The whistleblower whose personal information was leaked was a former director general of the prefectural government’s Nishiharima Prefectural Citizens Bureau. He died in July last year.
The committee, which probed the incident, judged that Chiaki Inomoto, former chief of the prefectural government’s general affairs department, had leaked his information. The prefectural government was considering disciplinary action against Inomoto.
Shukan Bunshun weekly magazine reported in July last year that Inomoto had shown the whistleblower’s personal information, which he kept in his assigned computer for public duty, to prefectural assembly members.
In October last year, the prefectural government set up the third-party committee comprising lawyers, which submitted an investigation report to the prefectural government in March this year. According to the sources, the committee, in their report, judged that Inomoto had leaked the information.
The prefectural government on Friday held a meeting of its disciplinary committee to discuss the possible punishment of Inomoto. Although results of the discussion have not been disclosed, the prefectural government’s guidelines stipulate that if a prefectural government official...
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