The problem that the "All Japan Private Kindergarten Association" has unclear how to use the funds of about 400 million yen.
The company president of an acquaintance of former chairman Kei Kagawa of the federation told NHK, "Since September last year, former chairman Kagawa and others have often visited the company with a copy of the passbook and the original. The balance has been greatly inflated. I was asked to cooperate with the forgery of the passbook, but I clearly refused. "
In response to previous interviews, former chairman Kagawa denied direct involvement in passbook forgery, saying, "It is true that I introduced an acquaintance's contractor to the secretariat, but I did not take the initiative."
Regarding the "All Japan Private Kindergarten Federation", which has about 7,500 private kindergartens nationwide, about 400 million yen of funds became unclear in the four years up to the second year of Reiwa last year, and the passbooks of multiple bank accounts and It is clear that the copy was forged.
Regarding this issue, the company president of an acquaintance of former chairman Kagawa of the federation responded to an interview with NHK, saying, "From the end of September last year to the following month, former chairman Kagawa said that there was something difficult, and a copy of the passbook with the former secretary general. I often visited the company with the original and the original, and I was asked to cooperate with the forgery of the passbook that greatly inflated the balance. "
On top of that, the president said, "Since the company has an OB of a bank that has a federation account, former chairman Kagawa and others showed me a copy of the passbook and said," I advise you if there are any unnatural points in printing the passbook or calculating interest. However, since it was a criminal act that could not be matched with the passbook, I clearly refused to cooperate with counterfeiting. Then, the former presidents went to consult with another acquaintance's contractor. " It was.
In a series of problems, since September 25, last year when the financial results for the first year of the Ordinance were audited, the federation requested that the passbook be submitted, so a copy of the passbook was first forged, and then the original passbook itself. Last month, the federation filed a criminal complaint with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of misappropriation of business and forgery of private documents that forged bankbooks, against former chairman Kagawa and former secretary general.
In response to NHK's interviews so far, former chairman Kagawa said, "It is true that I introduced an acquaintance's trader to the secretariat and participated in the forgery of the passbook, but I did not take the initiative." After denying involvement, he explained, "We have not refused to divert personal funds."