今野智博元衆院議員を逮捕　弁護士名義を他人に貸した疑い―詐欺被害回復うたい５億円集金か・警視庁

　弁護士の名義を他人に使わせ、詐欺被害回復をうたう法律事務をさせたとして、警視庁捜査２課は１３日までに、弁護士法違反（非弁提携）容疑で、元衆院議員で弁護士の今野智博容疑者（４８）＝埼玉県深谷市西島町＝を逮捕した。
　今野容疑者の名義を利用したとして、職業不詳辻直哉容疑者（５１）＝千葉県市川市市川南＝ら男女１０人も同法違反容疑で逮捕した。同課はいずれの認否も明らかにしていない。
　辻容疑者らは詐欺被害回復をうたう着手金名目で、２３都府県の約９００人から約５億円を集めていたとみられる。同課は背後に匿名・流動型犯罪グループがいる可能性もあるとみて、詳しく調べる。
　今野容疑者の逮捕容疑は２０２３年１２月～２４年１月ごろ、弁護士としての自身の名義を辻容疑者ら１０人に貸し、特殊詐欺の被害者ら５人の被害回復に関する法律事務をさせた疑い。（2024/06/13-11:53）

Tokyo police have arrested Tomohiro Konno, a former member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament, for allegedly lending his name as a lawyer to other people and allowing them to do legal work, in violation of the attorney law.
   Naoya Tsuji, 51, and nine others were also arrested by Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of using the name of Konno, 48, in violation of the law.
   The MPD did not disclose whether the arrested people have admitted the allegations against them.
   Tsuji and others are believed to have collected about 500 million yen in total from around 900 people in 23 prefectures in the name of deposit money to receive compensation for damage from fraud. The MPD is investigating the case in detail, suspecting that a so-called "tokuryu" criminal group, characterized by its membership's anonymity and fluidity, may be behind it.
   Konno allegedly lent his name between December 2023 and January 2024 and had Tsuji and nine others do legal work to recover special fraud damage for five victims.