幼稚園連合会が前会長ら告訴　４億円使途不明、警視庁に

　全日本私立幼稚園連合会（東京都千代田区）で４億円を超える使途不明金が発覚した問題で、連合会側が香川敬前会長（６９）らを警視庁に刑事告訴したことが１１日、関係者への取材で分かった。同庁が今後、事情を聴くなどして捜査を進めるとみられる。前会長は私的流用を否定しているという。
　連合会によると、２０１９年度までの３年間で、約３億２０００万円の資金が不正流出。２０年度も香川前会長が昨年１１月に辞任するまでの間、８０００万円超の現金が口座から引き出された。関連団体の全日本私立幼稚園ＰＴＡ連合会（千代田区、会長・河村建夫元官房長官）でも、２０年度に約４１００万円の流出があった。
　通帳の偽造なども確認されており、香川前会長と両連合会などの口座を管理していた当時の事務局長の関与が疑われている。連合会の調査に「前会長の指示で入出金した」と説明している。
　幼稚園連合会は全国の私立幼稚園団体で構成され、約７５００園が加盟。関係者によると、告訴状は同連合会の会長代行と河村氏の連名で提出されたという。（2021/03/11-22:56）

A Japanese association of private kindergartens has filed a criminal complaint against people including Kei Kagawa, former head of the group, over the issue of more than 400 million yen at the entity having become unaccounted for, it was learned Thursday.
   Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department, with which the complaint was filed, is set to investigate the case by questioning people concerned, informed sources said. Kagawa, 69, has denied that he used the money for private purposes, according to the sources.
   In the three years to fiscal 2019, which ended in March 2020, about 320 million yen became unaccounted for, according to the Tokyo-based association. In fiscal 2020, more than 80 million yen was fraudulently withdrawn from a bank account of the association until Kagawa quit as its head last November.
   In addition, about 41 million yen was lost at an affiliated kindergarten-related association in fiscal 2020. The affiliated group, also based in Tokyo, is headed by former Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura, a lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the country's parliament.
   Bank passbook forgery has been confirmed in the case, and Kagawa and a former head of the secretariat for the kindergarten association, who was in charge of managing bank accounts of the two groups, are suspected of being involved in the incident. The former secretariat chief said during an investigation by the national association, "I made deposits and withdrawals at the instructions of the former association boss."