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A lawyer and a professor mentioned Monday that they’ve filed a legal grievance accusing Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito of paying a public relations firm to run his social media marketing campaign for final month’s gubernatorial election.
The grievance in opposition to Saito, who gained re-election within the Nov. 17 race within the western Japan prefecture, for suspected violation of the general public workplaces election regulation was filed with the Kobe District Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Hyogo Prefectural Police division by lawyer Nobuo Gohara and Hiroshi Kamiwaki, professor at Kobe Gakuin University.
The grievance says the president of the general public relations firm acquired an order from Saito’s facet to give you his social media technique and handle his social media accounts through the marketing campaign. Saito paid the corporate ¥715,000 for its providers, it says.
After the election, the president mentioned in a web based submit that the corporate had been concerned in all components of Saito’s social media technique and public relations. A lawyer for Saito responded that the president had engaged within the actions as a volunteer, apart from 5 objects together with making posters.
In a web based information convention on Monday, Gohara doubted that an organization that makes a speciality of social media methods did the service as a volunteer.
