堀井前議員を略式起訴　有権者に香典、公選法違反罪―収支報告書不記載も・東京地検

　堀井学前衆院議員（５２）＝比例北海道、辞職＝が自身名義の香典などを有権者に配ったとされる事件で、東京地検特捜部は２９日、公選法違反罪で堀井氏を略式起訴した。自民党安倍派から還流したパーティー収入計約１７００万円を収支報告書に記載しなかったとして、政治資金規正法違反（虚偽記載）罪でも略式起訴した。
　東京簡裁は同日付で罰金１００万円、公民権停止３年の略式命令を出した。
　派閥の政治資金を巡っては、不記載額が３０００万円未満の議員側の立件は見送られていた。しかし特捜部は、堀井氏が不記載を了承していたことや香典の原資に裏金が含まれていた可能性があることなどから悪質性が高いと判断し、略式起訴に踏み切ったとみられる。（2024/08/29-18:07）

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on Thursday summarily indicted Manabu Horii, a former House of Representatives lawmaker from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, over two separate money cases.
   Tokyo Summary Court on the same day fined him 1 million yen and suspended his civil rights for three years.
   According to the indictments, Horii, 52, allegedly distributed a total of 380,000 yen in condolence money and other funeral offerings worth 230,000 yen to 52 voters in his constituency in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido through his secretaries between October 2021 and October 2023, in violation of the public offices election law.
   Horii is also charged with violating the political funds control law by failing to include a total of 17.14 million yen in his political group's financial statements for 2019 to 2021. He received the money from an LDP faction he belonged to. The faction, once led by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is at the center of a high-profile "slush fund" scandal involving LDP factions.
   In the slush fund scandal, public prosecutors had not indicted LDP lawmakers whose unreported funds were less than 30 million yen. But they decided to indict Horii after determining that his case was especially malicious, such as that he may have used such funds for funeral offerings.