案里被告の有罪確定　参院選買収、当選無効に

　２０１９年参院選をめぐる大型買収事件で、公選法違反（買収、事前運動）罪に問われた前参院議員、河井案里被告（４７）＝議員辞職＝を懲役１年４月、執行猶予５年とした東京地裁判決は、被告側、検察側双方が控訴せず、５日に確定した。
　有罪判決確定により、参院広島選挙区での案里被告の当選は無効となり、４月２５日に再選挙が行われる。同被告は５年間、公民権が停止され、その間は立候補できない。（2021/02/05-00:27）

Former Japanese lawmaker Anri Kawai's 16-month prison sentence, suspended for five years, over vote-buying became final on Friday.
   Neither Kawai, 47, nor prosecutors filed an appeal against the Tokyo District Court ruling by the deadline of the end of Thursday. The prosecution had demanded a longer prison term of 18 months without suspension for Kawai.
   Kawai resigned as a lawmaker of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, on Wednesday. She won the Upper House seat, her first in the Diet, in the July 2019 election for the chamber, running for the Hiroshima prefectural constituency.
   The finalized guilty verdict nullified her election to the Upper House. An Upper House by-election in the western Japan prefecture is set to be held on April 25. Following the finalized guilty ruling, Kawai will be stripped of her civil rights for five years and will thus be banned from running in public office elections during that period.
   In the Jan. 21 ruling, the Tokyo court said that Kawai in March-May 2019 asked four Hiroshima prefectural assembly members to cast their votes or round up votes for her in the July 2019 election and in return handed a total of 1.6 million yen in cash to them in conspiracy with her husband, former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai, 57, in violation of the public offices election law.