Arrested Japanese lawmaker allegedly took cash as election gift

A Japanese lawmaker who spearheaded the country's casino resort policy is suspected of taking 3 million yen ($27,300) from a Chinese gambling operator as a gift in support of his election campaign, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.Tsukasa Akimoto, a 48-year-old now-former member of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly receiving 3.7 million yen in bribes from 500.com Ltd.Of the bribes, 3 million yen in cash is suspected to have been handed to Akimoto at a House of Representatives office building in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2017, t…READ FULL ARTICLE