河井案里元議員が救急搬送　睡眠薬服用、命に別条なし―警視庁

　河井案里元参院議員（４８）が２０日夜に睡眠薬を大量に服用し、東京都内の病院に救急搬送されていたことが２１日、警視庁渋谷署への取材で分かった。命に別条はないという。
　同署によると、２０日午後６時半ごろ、河井元議員の親族から「『さようなら』と連絡があった」などと１１０番があった。署員が自宅マンションに駆け付けたところ、意識がもうろうとした状態の元議員が見つかったという。（2022/01/21-12:59）

Former House of Councillors lawmaker Kawai Anri was taken to a hospital in Tokyo by an ambulance after overdosing on sleeping pills on Thursday, police sources said Friday.
   Kawai, 48, is not in a life-threatening condition, according to the sources.
   The Metropolitan Police Department received an emergency call in the evening from a relative of Kawai who claimed to have been told "goodbye" from her over the phone. Police officers then found the former lawmaker in a stupor at her home.
   Kawai has been found guilty by Tokyo District Court of buying votes for herself in the 2019 election for the upper chamber of parliament, in violation of the public offices election law. In the election, she had won a seat from the Hiroshima prefectural constituency in western Japan.
   According to the ruling, she gave a total of 1.6 million yen in cash to Hiroshima prefectural assembly members to ask them to round up votes, conspiring with former Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai, her 58-year-old husband.