The fund management organization of former secretary general Toshihiro Nikai, who was elected to Wakayama 3rd Ward of the House of Representatives and is chairman of the Nikai faction of the Liberal Democratic Party, has not recorded 17.68 million yen in income from the faction in the political funds balance report for the three years up to the year 2019. However, on the 18th, I corrected the income and expenditure report.
According to the revised political funds income and expenditure report, former secretary-general Nikai's fund management organization ``New Politics and Economics Research Group'' received income from the Nikai faction ``Shijikai,'' of which he is the chairman, in the three years up to 2017. was not listed.
On the 18th, Nikai's former secretary general's fund management organization corrected its income and expenditure report due to omissions in the information, and the faction added new information
: 6.18 million yen in 2020
, 6.22 million yen in 2021
, 528 million yen in 2022.
It was stated that there was a total income of 17.68 million yen
.
In addition, the expenditures have been revised, and it has been newly
stated that there were expenditures for books
of over 11.76 million yen in 2020
, over 22.64 million yen in 2021 , and over 310,000 yen in 2022.
NHK sent written questions to former Secretary General Nikai's office regarding the reason for the correction and what kind of books the money was spent on, but so far there has been no response.
At a press conference on the 19th in which he announced the dissolution of the Nikai faction, Nikai was asked about his awareness of the omission of information, and in response, he said, ``I regret that I was unable to take care of myself because I got mixed up in my daily work.'' We want to prevent something like this from happening in the future."