大野議員の岐阜事務所捜索　自宅も、３日連続強制捜査―安倍派裏金事件・東京地検

　自民党の最大派閥「清和政策研究会」（安倍派）が政治資金パーティー収入の一部を裏金化していたとされる事件で、東京地検特捜部は２９日、政治資金規正法違反容疑で、大野泰正参院議員（６４）＝岐阜選挙区＝の岐阜県羽島市内の地元事務所と自宅を家宅捜索した。議員側への強制捜査は３日連続。
　事務所の捜索は午前１０時半ごろ開始。約６時間半後、押収物が入ったとみられる段ボール箱１５個以上を積んだワゴン車が事務所を出た。
　大野氏は同派から約５０００万円のキックバック（還流）を受け、政治資金収支報告書に記載していなかった疑いがあり、２８日に東京・永田町の議員会館事務所などの関係先も捜索を受けた。
　特捜部は押収した資料を分析するとともに、松野博一前官房長官ら中枢幹部や還流額が大きい議員らから任意で事情聴取するなどして実態解明を進めている。（2023/12/29-18:10）

Japanese public prosecutors raided lawmaker Yasutada Ono's local office in the city of Hashima, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on Friday over slush funds allegations involving the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's largest faction.
   The special squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office raided a place related to a lawmaker over the scandal for the third straight day. Ono is suspected of violating the political funds control law
   Ono, a 64-year-old member of the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, is suspected of receiving about 50 million yen in kickbacks out of fundraising party revenues from the faction, previously headed by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, over the five years through 2022 and allegedly failed to book the money in his political funds reports.
   On Thursday, the special squad searched places linked to Ono, including his office in a parliamentary members' building in Tokyo. He has been elected to the Upper House from the Gifu prefectural constituency.
   On Wednesday, the investigation squad raided locations related to Abe faction lawmaker Yoshitaka Ikeda, 57, a member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber, including his office in a different building for lawmakers in Tokyo and his local office in Nagoya, the capital of Aichi Prefecture, central Japan.