Secret Plan to Spend up to 7 million USD a Year on Security for Mr. and Mrs. Komuro Out of "Diplomatic Secret Funds?"
Last October, Mako, the eldest daughter of
the Akishino family, married Kei Komuro and moved to New York, despite public
criticism. The Daily Shincho dated March 9 reported that a top-secret plan to
invest diplomatic secret funds to support Mr.and Mrs. Komuro's life in New York
has emerged within the government.
According to the article, the idea of
outsourcing the security of the two to a private security firm in New York has
been floated and is now being considered by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and National Police Agency. According to the proposal, the security costs
would be funded by MOFA's reward fund, the so-called diplomatic secret fund.
Incidentally, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs' reward fund is money used for diplomatic activities whose use must be
kept secret. Shukan Shincho asked a security firm familiar with the security
situation in the U.S. to provide an estimate of the monthly cost of the
cheapest plan, which is about 39 million yen. The monthly cost, including the
monthly cost of stationing guards at private residences, would amount to more
than 70 million yen (about 0.6 million USD) . On an annual basis, this amounts
to 800 million yen (about 6.7 million USD).
A Japanese international lawyer familiar with the situation in the U.S. commented: "From the U.S. point of view, this is not an economically bizarre figure at all. If Mr. and Mrs. Komuro live in New York for another 60 years, the figure would be several tens of billions of yen, which could well be the economic model for analyzing the total security costs of a U.S. security company."
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