Former assistant is the “mayor of the back” Construction company “It is difficult to accept orders without intermediaries” September 28 20:33
Kansai Electric's chairman, president, etc. received large amounts of money from former assistants in Takahama-cho, Fukui Prefecture, and it would be difficult for local construction companies to accept orders for nuclear-related construction without the assistance of former assistants I understood that awareness was spreading. The former assistant received a large fee from the contractor, and it seems that some of it was returned to the Kansai Electric Power side.
20 people including Kansai Electric Power President Shigeki Iwane and Chairman Makoto Yagi have received goods and money equivalent to 320 million yen from the former assistant Eiji Moriyama of Takahama Town where the nuclear power plant is located. .
The former assistant died at the age of 90 in March, but he has a great influence on orders for construction related to the nuclear power plant. I found out that it was spreading through interviews with multiple companies.
One of them told NHK's interview that "the influence was so great that I couldn't get a job related to nuclear power without talking about it." In addition, many of the people who were talking were saying that they had “greater power than the mayor of the time” and were called “the mayor of the back”.
According to the person concerned, the tax assistant of the National Tax Bureau said that the former assistant received a large fee in connection with the order from the local construction company, and it seems that part of it returned to the Kansai Electric Power side .
Locally, there is a growing demand for Kansai Electric Power to fulfill its accountability against the background of the uncertainties regarding the relationship between former town executives and power companies.