Former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya divulged Thursday that lawmakers Fumio Kyuma and Fukushiro Nukaga were among those wined and dined by a former executive of defense equipment trader Yamada Corp. now at the center of a widening corruption scandal.
Both Kyuma and Nukaga, the current finance minister, previously served as defense chief.
However, Moriya, testifying under oath to the House of Councilors Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, again denied that he gave preferential treatment to Yamada in its business with the Defense Ministry.