籠池夫妻、実刑確定へ　森友補助金詐取で上告棄却―最高裁

　学校法人森友学園を巡り、国などの補助金計約１億７０００万円をだまし取ったとして、詐欺罪などに問われた学園理事長の籠池泰典（６９）、妻の諄子（６６）両被告について、最高裁第１小法廷（深山卓也裁判長）は１０日付で、２人の上告を棄却する決定をした。籠池被告を懲役５年、諄子被告を懲役２年６月の実刑とした二審大阪高裁判決が確定する。確定後、２人は収監される。
　二審判決によると、２人は２０１７年までに、小学校建設工事費を水増しした契約書などを出し、国から補助金計約５６００万円を詐取した。１１～１６年度には幼稚園の専任教員や要支援児の数を偽って過大に申請し、大阪府と大阪市から補助金計約１億２０００万円をだまし取った。（2023/01/12-19:13）

Prison sentences are set to become final for Yasunori Kagoike, 69, head of Japanese school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife over 170-million-yen subsidy fraud, it was learned Thursday.
   The Supreme Court's First Petty Bench made a decision dated Tuesday to reject the defendants' appeals, allowing the ruling upheld by Osaka High Court to become final. Kagoike got a five-year term, and his 66-year-old wife, Junko, a 30-month term.
   The couple will be imprisoned after the ruling becomes final.
   According to the high court ruling, the couple swindled the central government out of 56 million yen in subsidies by 2017 by padding school construction costs.
   Between fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2016, the couple defrauded the Osaka prefectural and municipal governments out of some 120 million yen in subsidies by overreporting the numbers of kindergarten teachers and children in need of support, the ruling also said.