In a lawsuit in which a civic group demanded that the prefectural government return funds for political activities that were granted to a group of the Tochigi Prefectural Assembly in fiscal 2016 for inappropriate use, the Tokyo High Court in the second instance awarded a total of 4.2 million yen. I ordered the governor to cancel most of the first-judgment decisions that allowed the surplus to be returned, and to return about 50,000 yen to one parliamentary faction.
A civic group in Tochigi Prefecture requested the governor to return a total of approximately 68 million yen to the prefecture, claiming that some of the administrative activity expenses that the prefecture provided to parliamentary factions in fiscal 2016 were used inappropriately. rice field.
In April, the Utsunomiya District Court in the first instance acknowledged that some personnel expenses, for which the specific business content could not be specified, were illegal expenditures, and the Tochigi Liberal Democratic Party Congress, the then Democratic Party independent club, and the current Democratic Citizens Club. , and a ruling ordering the governor to return a total of more than 4.28 million yen to the prefecture for three groups of independent associations.
In the second trial on the 28th, presiding judge Toshikazu Kino of the Tokyo High Court said, "There is no contradiction in considering part of personnel expenses to be the content of assistance work for political affairs." canceled the portion ordered to be returned to the two denominations of
He then handed down a judgment ordering the governor to return more than 50,000 yen to the prefecture against the independent association.