By the 7th, the Supreme Court had dismissed the final appeal in a trial in which a civic group demanded that the prefecture return the government activity expenses that were issued to the Tochigi Prefectural Assembly faction in fiscal 2015, alleging that they were being used inappropriately. .
The judgment of the second trial, which acknowledged that some expenditures were illegal and ordered the governor to return more than 1.6 million yen to one parliamentary group, was finalized.
A civic group in Tochigi Prefecture requested the governor to return a total of approximately 54 million yen to the prefecture, claiming that part of the administrative activity expenses that the prefecture issued to the prefectural assembly factions in 2015 were used inappropriately. I was.
The Utsunomiya District Court in the first trial dismissed the lawsuit, but the Tokyo High Court in the second trial said that two people who belonged to the Tochigi Liberal Democratic Party Council at the time said, We have received more than the standards set by the .
After that, he ordered the governor to return more than 1.6 million yen to the Tochigi Liberal Democratic Party members' meeting, saying that the portion exceeding the standard was illegal expenditure.
Citizens' groups filed an appeal against the ruling, but Chief Judge Yasumasa Nagamine of the 3rd Petty Court of the Supreme Court decided to reject it by the 7th, and the judgment of the 2nd trial was finalized.