Gifu cooks the books & burns them

[Taro Toporific]

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Hard to imagine having bank notes to burn
Asahi.com 08/08/2006 - Vox Populi, Vox Dei
.....Gifu Prefecture officials who actually burned or trashed illicit cash they had on hand.
Almost all sections of the Gifu prefectural government had been cooking the books and socking away slush funds in excess of 460 million yen.
To cover their tracks, it seems Gifu officials dumped in the trash or burned about 5 million yen...more...

[amdg]

“But who’s thinking of the poor banknotes!?”, you might cry. Well, Asahi Weakly is..

To burn or trash bank notes is tantamount to taking their lives.

Now THAT’s what I call journalism. Because the whole 'corrupt politicians' angle was kinda played out anyway, but this takes a whole new approach to the story. I give it 5 thumbs up.

What’s that you say? Public officials burning money? Unnacounted for slush funds? Names withheld? Who cares about that banality…. “Show Me The Money (I want to hold it while it dies).” hee hee

[Socratesabroad]

Reminds me of the Nagano Olympics...

Former Nagano bid committee member, Sumikazu Yamaguchi, has said that he ordered records of the committee's spending to be destroyed at the end of March of 1992. Yamaguchi has denied any wrongdoing saying the prefectural government of the time was short of space, and that there were no rules stipulating that any of the records needed to be stored.