A former prosecutor was handed a suspended two-year prison term Tuesday for forging signatures and personal seals of a molestation victim to make it appear she had filed a request to withdraw her criminal complaint.
Satoru Saito, 40, who worked for the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office until April, was handed the sentence by the Tokyo District Court.
He was in charge of a complaint case in July 2006 in which the woman accused a male acquaintance of sexually abusing her in a car.
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