Former Mayor of Akiota, Anri Kawai's trial "If you refuse, the relationship will collapse" September 23, 16:56
Former Mayor Shinji Kosaka of Akiota Town appeared as a witness for the first time as a local mayor in the trial of Representative Katsuyuki Kawai, who was accused of violating the Public Offices Election Act. I thought that if I refused, my relationship with former Minister Katsuyuki Kawai would be destroyed. "
Anri Kawai, a 47-year-old member of the House of Councilors, has been acquitted of the acquisition of a violation of the Public Offices Election Act over last year's House of Councilors election.
At the trial held at the Tokyo District Court on the 23rd, former Mayor Shinji Kosaka of Akiota Town, who resigned in April after admitting that he had received 200,000 yen in cash from former Minister of Justice Katsuyuki Kawai, appeared as a witness. Did.
When the former minister who visited his house in April last year offered an envelope containing cash, the former mayor Kosaka refused by sending the envelope to the former minister while saying "No". He said, "OK," and he gave me the envelope again, and explained that he received it after repeating this three times.
When the prosecutor asked for recognition at that time, former Mayor Kosaka said, "I thought it was illegal because it meant a request for further activities toward the election of Senator Kuri in the upcoming Upper House election." I did.
Furthermore, regarding the reason why he received it while recognizing that it was illegal, he said, "I didn't want to spoil the relationship between former Minister Kawai and Mayor Akiota. I wanted it, I wanted to secure a budget for it, and I thought that if I declined, that relationship would break. "