Japan has bribed with money and prostitutes representatives of small countries in the International Whaling Commission in order to gain their support. This was revealed by 'The Sunday Times investigation in which some government officials in favor of whaling were movies, while admitting that their vote and 'was driven by financial aid from Japan, from large monetary donations at the meetings of the Committee and, in one case, even with escorts during visits to Japan.
In a meeting that will take place 'in Morocco this month the Commission will decide' whether to suspend the moratorium on commercial whaling introduced fishing 24 years ago. The support of these small nations - that the second Sunday of the investigation would include the governments of Côte d'Ivoire, the Republic of Guinea, Grenada, Kiribati, Marshall Islands and St Kitts and Nevis - could therefore have a crucial role in the Japan. Contacted by journalists pretending to be a billionaire environmentalist he wanted the nations to change their minds in favor of whaling, the more 'senior official from the fisheries of Guinea said that Japan pay''a''minimum of $ 1,000 per day in cash representative of Guinea when he participates in meetings of the committee.''We support Japan for what it gives us'''said an official of the Marshall Islands. To reveal the offer of prostitutes' instead been a board member from the Tanzania, according to which some girls were made available to officials and ministers during their visit to Japan entirely at the expense of the government in Tokyo. (ANSA).
Per l'investigazione del Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7149086.ece
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