Overview
- Prosecutors have decided to seek a summary indictment of a Saitama District Public Prosecutors Office lawyer in his 30s for allegedly leaking investigative information in violation of the National Public Service Law.
- The prosecutor is accused of providing nonpublic case details to a woman he met through a matching app, and he was reassigned from the criminal division to general affairs earlier this autumn.
- Disciplinary punishment for the prosecutor is expected following the criminal procedure, according to reporting based on interviews with people familiar with the matter.
- Kyoto Prefectural Police sent paperwork to prosecutors and issued a headquarters admonition on December 11 to a Minami Police Station sergeant in his 20s who allegedly viewed driver’s-license–linked data and disclosed it to an acquaintance last October.
- Kyoto police said the station terminal was in a state that allowed queries by personnel without proper authorization and that no wider leakage or misuse beyond the acquaintance has been confirmed.