Anri Kawai Trial Chairman Maemachi "To keep the mood ..." September 24, 13:59
In the trial of Senator Anri Kawai, who was accused of violating the Public Offices Election Act, the former chairman of the Aki Ota Town Council appeared as a witness and admitted that he received cash from the former Minister of Justice Katsuyuki Kawai. It was to keep the parliamentarians who are in control of their lives and deaths in a bad mood. "
Anri Kawai, a 47-year-old member of the House of Councilors, has been acquitted of the acquisition 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 24th, former chairman Takahiko Yatate of the Aki Ota Town Council, who resigned as chairman on the 17th of this month after accepting cash, appeared as a witness.
Former Chairman Yatate testified that former Minister Katsuyuki Kawai, who visited his home last March, said, "Please add to your activities," and put an envelope containing 200,000 yen in cash on the table.
At that time, the former chairman refused, "This is a teacher, I'm sick," but the former minister said, "It's okay," and testified that he immediately went out and went home.
When asked why the prosecutor did not return the cash, the former chairman said, "The locally elected parliamentarians are at the mercy of the town, and as chairman the mission is to keep in touch with the former minister. If I returned the money and was in a bad mood for the former minister, it could delay the town's business, and I thought it would not be good for the town, so I couldn't make a decision. "