夫の死亡保険金も提供　旧統一教会に１億円献金―山上容疑者の母・伯父証言

　安倍晋三元首相が奈良市で街頭演説中に銃撃され死亡した事件で、山上徹也容疑者（４１）＝殺人容疑で送検＝の伯父（７７）が１５日、報道陣の取材に応じた。山上容疑者の母親が死亡した夫の生命保険金などから、宗教団体の世界平和統一家庭連合（旧統一教会）に約１億円を献金していたことを明らかにした。
　伯父によると、山上容疑者が４歳だった１９８４年１２月に父親が自殺。母親は９１年、夫の自殺などを受け、旧統一教会に入会した。入会と同時に２０００万円、直後に３０００万円、約３年後に１０００万円を献金した。いずれも原資は死亡した夫の生命保険金だった。
　さらに母親は亡くなった自身の父親から相続した不動産の売却益計４０００万円を献金し、総額は約１億円に上った。２００２年に破産した後も献金を続けていた可能性があるという。（2022/07/15-20:18）

The mother of the man suspected of fatally shooting former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last week donated about 100 million yen to the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, better known as the Unification Church, the man's uncle told reporters Friday.
   The Abe murder suspect, Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, has told investigators that his family was financially ruined due to his mother's large donations to the religious group, which he believed Abe had links to.
   The mother became a follower of the church in 1991, after her husband's suicide, and at the same time donated 20 million yen to the church, the uncle said, adding that she donated 30 million yen soon afterward and 10 million yen a few years later. All the money came from payments she received from a life insurance policy on her husband, the uncle said.
   The mother inherited assets including land plots from her father and sold them to donate an extra 40 million yen to the church, the uncle said.
   Meanwhile, the Unification Church has said that the mother joined the group around 1998.