Report: Japan Offered Prostitutes to Sway Whaling Votes
Dana Kennedy
AOL News
(June 14) -- Japanese officials bribed six small nations with offers of cash and call girls in return for their votes in favor of slaughtering whales, according to a newspaper investigation.
Japan denies the accusations, but The Sunday Times reported that two of its journalists filmed government officials from six countries admitting they were bribed by Japan to vote with the pro-whalers.
News of the sting comes as Japan seeks to overturn a 24-year moratorium on commercial whaling at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission next week in Agadir, Morocco.
"This is what Japan does, they try to advance their agenda of killing whales and killing dolphins by whatever means necessary," C.T. Ryder, president of the Maui-based Earth Foundation and one of the promoters of the Oscar-winning dolphin-slaughter documentary, "The Cove," told AOL News today.
(More here.)
AOL News
(June 14) -- Japanese officials bribed six small nations with offers of cash and call girls in return for their votes in favor of slaughtering whales, according to a newspaper investigation.
Japan denies the accusations, but The Sunday Times reported that two of its journalists filmed government officials from six countries admitting they were bribed by Japan to vote with the pro-whalers.
News of the sting comes as Japan seeks to overturn a 24-year moratorium on commercial whaling at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission next week in Agadir, Morocco.
"This is what Japan does, they try to advance their agenda of killing whales and killing dolphins by whatever means necessary," C.T. Ryder, president of the Maui-based Earth Foundation and one of the promoters of the Oscar-winning dolphin-slaughter documentary, "The Cove," told AOL News today.
(More here.)
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