Panel: Reform classified fund system / Kono presented with.

Panel: Reform classified fund system / Kono presented with proposals on preventing misuse of govt money Yomiuri An advisory panel to Foreign Minister Yohei Kono on Tuesday submitted to him a set of proposals calling for a reduction in the ministry's diplomatic classified fund and the introduction of a new inspection framework to monitor operations at the ministry, ministry sources said. The ministry plans to compile a general plan based on the proposals by the end of May to give more shape to them, the sources said. The panel has been entrusted with the task of drafting measures to prevent recurrences of the alleged misappropriation by a senior ministry official of the …