警視庁捜査員ら３人不起訴　大川原化工機、虚偽文書作成容疑など―東京地検

　噴霧乾燥機の不正輸出容疑で社長らが逮捕され、後に起訴が取り消された機械メーカー「大川原化工機」（横浜市）への捜査を巡り、虚偽有印公文書作成・同行使などの疑いで書類送検された当時の警視庁公安部捜査員ら３人について、東京地検は８日、不起訴（嫌疑不十分）とした。
　不起訴を受け、同社の代理人弁護士は「犯罪の成否について裁判所の判断を仰ぐ機会が奪われるのは不当。検察審査会に審査を申し立てる方針だ」とのコメントを発表。刑事告発した元役員は「納得がいかない。不起訴ありきで形式的に手続きが進められたのではないか」とした。
　捜査員らは２０１９年５月、同社製の噴霧乾燥機の温度実験をした際、立件する上で不利なデータを除外した捜査報告書を作成、行使したほか、２０年３月に元役員の弁解録取書を故意に破棄するなどしたとして、昨年１１月に警視庁に書類送検された。（2025/01/08-16:57）

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office decided Wednesday not to indict three people suspected of making and using official documents containing falsified information during criminal investigations into machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co.
   Following the probes by the Public Security Bureau of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department, Ohkawara Kakohki's president and others were indicted on allegations of illegally exporting spray dryers, but the charges were later dropped.
   "It is unreasonable to deprive us of the opportunity to seek a court judgment on whether their acts were crimes," a lawyer for the Yokohama-based maker said of the decision, adding that the company plans to seek a review by a committee for the inquest of prosecution.
   A former company executive who filed the criminal complaint against the three people involved in the probes expressed dissatisfaction, saying, "It seems that the proceedings were conducted just as a formality, with the policy of no indictment predetermined."
   The three allegedly made and used in May 2019 a report regarding experiments on the product in question from which data unfavorable to building a case had been deliberately excluded.