Abe lives in a hotel.

Japan's news about Abe's "bribery election" has made a lot of noise. After Abe stepped down as prime minister, he was exposed to the scandal of embezzlement of public funds, and his team was also inspected by relevant departments. But after stepping down, he was directly accused of embezzlement. Is the seamless connection a coincidence or is it intentional?

Abe's office is suspected of discarding the problem receipt of Tokyo Hotel, which indirectly indicates that Abe has been sentenced to pay part of the expenses of the banquet with public funds. In the past five years, Abe's funds for filling banquets have reached 9 million yen. Two hotels have indicated that they have presented receipts to Abe, and Abe's management organization has paid this part of the fee. Although Abe has probably discarded the relevant receipts, relevant departments have conducted relevant investigations on the hotel. The current survey results show that at least one person in Abe's team admitted that Abe did misappropriate public funds.

Abe has to pay at least 6.5438+0 million yen to the hotel every year, and sometimes even as high as 2.5 million yen. The banquet hosted by Abe is mainly to support Abe's voters. Each of them pays 5,000 yen for the banquet, but the average daily banquet in the hotel is about 1 100 yen per person, so the difference is likely to be made up by Abe.

Some people speculated that Abe wanted to use the banquet to reward his supporters, but Abe denied it. Abe said that his support club had no revenue and expenditure, and the Abe incident also had some influence on the current Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide. Suga Yoshihide also issued a statement on this incident, saying that it had nothing to do with him.

The government requested to restart the cherry blossom banquet investigation, but Suga Yoshihide refused this request. On the surface, Suga Yoshihide is defending Abe, but in fact, Suga Yoshihide is defending himself. As a cabinet official in Abe's era, Suga Yoshihide can't say that he knows nothing about Abe's practices. Suga Yoshihide's statement that he has nothing to do with Abe's misappropriation of public funds is also an obvious shirking of responsibility, and the relationship between Abe and Suga Yoshihide is also very tense now.

Although Abe has always expressed his support for Suga Yoshihide's re-election, it is not clear whether Abe will continue to support Suga Yoshihide in case of policy differences between Abe and Suga Yoshihide. So Abe happened to have a scandal at this time. Is it Suga Yoshihide's intention? In order to consolidate his position as prime minister, it is reasonable for Suga Yoshihide to do so. After all, Suga Yoshihide is the biggest beneficiary of Abe's conviction.