財務局が文書不開示決定　赤木さん妻請求―改ざん問題

　学校法人森友学園への国有地売却をめぐる財務省の公文書改ざん問題で、自殺した同省近畿財務局職員赤木俊夫さん＝当時（５４）＝の妻雅子さん（５０）による行政文書の開示請求について、同局は１２日までに不開示決定をした。雅子さんの代理人弁護士が明らかにした。１１日付。
　国は６月、改ざんの経緯を記した「赤木ファイル」を開示したが、雅子さんは８月、上司からの改ざん指示などに関わる詳細な情報が必要だとして、財務省がまとめた調査報告書の関連文書などの開示を同省と同局に求めていた。
　同局は決定通知書で、調査報告書の作成時に収集した文書については「保有を確認できなかった」と回答。検察に任意提出した文書は「特定事件の捜査に関するもの」として、存否も明らかにしなかった。代理人によると、同省からの通知はまだ届いていないという。（2021/10/12-14:46）

The Ministry of Finance's Kinki Local Finance Bureau in western Japan has rejected a request from the widow of a former bureau official to disclose administrative documents related to a high-profile public records-tampering scandal, it was learned Tuesday.
   The bureau said in a notice of its decision dated Monday that it could not confirm that it possesses documents collected to compile an investigation report on the tampering scandal, which led to the suicide in 2018 of the official, Toshio Akagi, then 54.
   The bureau also refused to confirm the existence of related documents it is believed to have submitted to prosecutors voluntarily.
   In June, the national government disclosed documents left by Akagi on the tampering of public records regarding the sale of a state-owned land plot at a huge discount to school operator Moritomo Gakuen, once linked to former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife.
   In August, however, the widow of Akagi, Masako, 50, made the disclosure request to the ministry and the bureau, claiming that she needs to see detailed information including on instructions for tampering that her late husband received from his superiors.