Tickets
Tadao Koseki, the former president of the quasi-public insurance group KSD and under arrest since Nov. 8, spent 15 million yen of KSD money to stage a musical event in 1995 and gave close to 1,400 free tickets to a political support group for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, sources familiar with the case said Monday.
The sources said Koseki staged the concert featuring popular female singer Sachiko Kobayashi in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture -- Mori's constituency -- in September 1995, billing the event in internal KSD documents as part of KSD publicity activities.
The concert was held Sept. 9, 1995 in the Kaga City Cultural Hall. The hall has a capacity of 1,426 seats, and 1,390 tickets were given to Mori's political support group, the sources said.
Koseki, who had been channeling political funds to the LDP since 1991, apparently sought to cultivate Mori, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secretary general at the time, as part of his strategy to build ties to powerful LDP politicians.
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