https://www.sankei.com/article/20251226-D5ELOHO53FLNVFKLNALTGB5QQQ/

The Ministry of Justice dismisses a male prosecutor who leaked investigative information to his girlfriend after indicting him on summary charges of violating the National Public Service Act.

On the 26th, the Ministry of Justice dismissed prosecutor Taketo Anan (35) of the Saitama District Public Prosecutors Office for disciplinary reasons for leaking investigative information to a woman he was dating. On the same day, he was summarily indicted for violating the National Public Service Act (obligation of confidentiality) and received a summary order to pay a fine of 300,000 yen. This was announced by the Saitama District Public Prosecutors Office.

According to the district prosecutors' office, around June 20th of last year, while he was working at the Numazu branch of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutors Office, he handed a sticky note containing information he had obtained from a device accessible to prosecutors to a woman he was dating at the time. The information included the date and content of a criminal trial verdict for a man who was causing trouble with the woman.

In relation to a prosecutorial scandal, a male prosecutor in his 30s from the Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office (who has since resigned) was given a 10-month suspension in October as disciplinary action for accepting entertainment, including food and drink, worth over 1 million yen on multiple occasions from a witness he was interrogating after the case had concluded.