04/01/2008
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
SENDAI--The district court here Monday ordered police to disclose names and information related to funds earmarked for rewarding informants in fiscal 1999.
Presiding Judge Yoshiko Hatanaka ruled that most of the expenditures were fictional.
It is the first time a court has ordered disclosure of names of informants.
A citizen ombudsman's group filed the lawsuit on grounds that police have not said how the funds were used.
In June 2005, then Miyagi Governor Shiro Asano clashed with the prefectural police and suspended the budget for rewarding informants, contending that it could not confirm whether the police used the funds appropriately.(IHT/Asahi: April 1,2008)
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