News via Bloomberg, citing MOF's Mitsuru Ota
- An official in the MOF contacted the lawyer and requested for the lawyer to lie
- Ota also apologises to the parliament for the actions
I believe they are citing the NHK report here. Which says that an MOF official asked the Moritomo lawyer to lie about why the school operator received a huge discount when they bought the state-owned land.
Not going to make too much of a difference to the matter as it is quite clear how things went down in this case. And the general public knows that too.
