The secretary-general gathered part-time jobs in the case where four people including the secretary-general of the organization that carried out the signature activity and his second son were arrested for forging the signature for the recall and dismissal request of the governor of Aichi prefecture using part-time jobs etc. According to an interview with a company official, it seems that the second son was preparing the list used for counterfeiting the signature and witnessing the work by instructing the company about the work of copying.
The police are investigating the division of roles.
Takahiro Tanaka (59), the secretary general of the organization that carried out the signing activity, and Masato (28), the second son, were four people last year at the end of the signing activity for the recall and dismissal request of Governor Omura of Aichi Prefecture. In late May, there is a suspicion of violating the Local Autonomy Law in Saga City, where the signature was forged using a part-time job.
According to an official of an advertising-related company who collected part-time jobs through a subcontractor, in October last year, Secretary-General Tanaka asked the executives of the company to "gather people anyway", and the work contents such as copying the signature Is that you were instructed.
Then, the second son, Masato, brought a signature sheet and a large number of residents' lists to the facility in Saga City, witnessed the transcription work with the mother arrested this time, and divided the forged signature book into multiple times by car. It means that it was carried to Aichi prefecture.
On the other hand, Secretary Tanaka denied the involvement of his family and himself in the NHK interview from last month to this month, saying, "I asked an advertising company to collect signatures, but the specific method of having a part-time job copy it is It was planned by an advertising company. "
The police are investigating the division of roles.
Police have not disclosed the approval or disapproval of the four, saying they would interfere with the investigation.
Mr. Takahiro Tanaka, the secretary general of the arrest, ...
NHK has interviewed the arrested Executive Secretary, Takahiro Tanaka, on allegations of signature forgery.
1 What is in Saga?
First of all, what happened in Saga City last October?
It is suspected that a large number of part-time workers were gathered at a facility in the city, and that the wife and son of Executive Secretary Tanaka were present and the transcription work was done.
A man who worked part-time told NHK that he had to collect about 1 million signatures, so if there were not enough people to copy, he was instructed to "hurry up."
In response to this suspicion, Secretary-General Tanaka said, "My wife is always doing part-time work, so I shouldn't have time to go to Saga. My second son usually does work, too." After denying the involvement of his family, he said, "I am not aware of the involvement of recall group staff or executives in Saga's signature activities," and denied the involvement of the group himself. Did.
2 Who gave the instructions?
Who instructed the transcription?
Part-time jobs in Saga were collected from advertising-related companies in Aichi Prefecture through subcontractors.
According to an official of this advertising-related company, the recruitment of part-time jobs was requested by Executive Secretary Tanaka to the executives of the company.
It means that he received the "purchase order" with the name written by Executive Secretary Tanaka and the seal stamped on it.
Regarding this, Secretary-General Tanaka denied, "I don't remember writing or signing the purchase order, and I haven't stamped it."
3 Turn around “Recognized copy”
Secretary Tanaka, who has been denying the involvement in copying the signature, changed his testimony in May.
He admitted that he had been aware of the copy of the signature by the part-time job and the request to the advertising company from that time.
On top of that, I heard that the request was to collect signatures, and after copying it, I heard that I would collect signatures again from the person with that name, and explained that I did not request forgery. If you can collect signatures for what you get, I told you to do it. "
Executive Secretary Tanaka “Responsible for Exercise”
While denying involvement in counterfeiting, Secretary Tanaka acknowledged himself for the responsibility of submitting the counterfeit signature, "Signature forgery and signature forgery exercise. I am this exercise. Exercise is this exercise. I'm submitting what appears to be a forged signature. There's about that, because I'm not forging a signature. "
Expert "A big incident that destroys local autonomy"
Professor Hiroyuki Shirafuji of the Faculty of Law, Senshu University, who is familiar with the Local Autonomy Law, commented on this signature forgery case. It's a big incident that can destroy local autonomy. "
And about the current mechanism that the validity is usually not checked unless the required number of signatures is reached, "Since it is a case where the recall has not been established, the election administration committee did not check it thoroughly and left it as it is. Maybe. Even if the fact that at least 400,000 signatures have been recalled is a lie, it may have remained and such political use should never be allowed. " He expressed concern about being done.
On top of that, "If you don't clarify the motive for the forgery, there are not always some people who think that you can do it a little better. I want you to do a proper verification so as not to allow the destruction of local autonomy." I was talking.