Previous Minister of Justice had passed cash during the election period

Election violation cases by former ministers Whether cash was given during the Upper House election period June 23, 17:23

There is a suspicion that former Minister of Justice Kawai and his wife, Satoshi Senri, had been arrested in the election violation case, while former Minister Kawai had given cash to multiple local members during the Upper House election last year. Was understood by interviewing the people concerned. The prosecutor's office seems to be working on clarifying the fact that it is one of the reasons to support that the provision of cash was the purpose of the acquisition.

Former former Minister of Justice Katsuyuki Kawai (57) and his wife, Housewife of the House of Councilors Susato Sato (46), asked local lawmakers to organize their votes over the House of Councilors election in July last year and distributed cash as compensation. He was arrested on suspicion of acquisition of a violation of the Public Offices Election Law, and the prosecutor's office is suspected that a total of 94.57 million yen was distributed to 94 people, and is proceeding with the investigation.

It is known that there are many cases in which cash is provided to local lawmakers before and after the unified local elections in April last year, as "a visit to Jinchu". Among them, it was newly found through interviews with concerned parties that there was a suspicion that cash was being handed to multiple local lawmakers.

In response to NHK's interview, one of the former members of parliament was given an envelope containing 300,000 yen in cash in a private room of a restaurant in June last year before the election, on July 4, last year of the public notice. Also testified that an envelope containing 100,000 yen was put in a pocket at the toilet of the hotel where Representative Satoshi gave a speech.

Another local member of the parliament also said at the end of the election campaign that Mr. Kawari had received an envelope with 300,000 yen in cash at the office of Mr. Satoshi.

The prosecutor's office seems to be working on clarifying the fact that it is one of the reasons to support that the provision of cash was the purpose of the acquisition.

According to the person concerned, former Minister Kawai acknowledged that he had distributed cash to some of the 94 people in response to the investigation so far, and said, ``We distributed cash because of party expansion, etc. It is not the purpose of requesting "."

In addition, regarding the cash source that was handed over, it was explained to the surroundings such as "I got it from my own funds. The 150 million yen transferred from the LDP headquarters before the election is not the source."