Former House of Representatives member Yaichi Tanikawa, who received a fine and a summary order to suspend his civil rights for violating the Political Funds Control Act, and the former accounting director of the Kishida faction have been found guilty in a case involving a political funding party run by a faction of the Liberal Democratic Party. . This is the first time a person has been found guilty in a series of cases.
Those found guilty were Yaichi Tanikawa (82), a former member of the House of Representatives who belonged to the Abe faction's Seiwa Policy Research Group and resigned from the Liberal Democratic Party last month, his daughter who was his secretary, and Hiroike, a member of the Kishida faction. I am Kazuo Sasaki (80 years old), former accounting officer of the Policy Research Group.
Former lawmaker Tanigawa and his daughter, who was his secretary, received 43.55 million yen in kickbacks from Abe's faction over the five years up until the year 2017, but they did not record it in the political funds balance report of a fund management organization. , former accounting director of the Kishida faction, Sasaki, was accused of failing to record party income of 30.59 million yen as income in the faction's political funds income and expenditure report for the three years up to 2020, in violation of the Political Funds Control Act. was indicted on a charge of making a false statement.
Of these, former Rep. Tanigawa and former accounting director Sasaki were fined 1 million yen and had their civil rights suspended for 3 years, while his daughter, who was former Rep. Tanigawa's secretary, was fined 300,000 yen and had her civil rights suspended for 3 years. However, according to the court, they were all found guilty by the 15th.
This is the first time that a person has been found guilty in a series of cases, and his civil rights will be suspended for the next three years and he will be barred from running in any elections.