カミンスカス被告に懲役１１年　積水ハウス地面師事件―東京地裁

　積水ハウスが被害に遭った「地面師」事件の主導役の一人とされ、詐欺罪などに問われたカミンスカス操被告（６０）の判決が１０日、東京地裁であった。守下実裁判長は「犯行の重要な役割を積極的に果たした」と述べ、懲役１１年（求刑懲役１４年）を言い渡した。
　守下裁判長は「取引の場で地主役に付き添い、偽物と発覚しないよう手だてを講じた」と指摘した上で、「事件の中心的存在で、少なくとも１億円の分け前を得た」と判断。弁護側は、地主が偽物とは知らなかったと無罪を主張したが、判決は「本物の地主と思っていたとすれば、被告の供述には不自然、不合理な点が多々認められる」などと退けた。
　判決によると、カミンスカス被告らは２０１７年３～６月、東京都品川区の旅館跡地について、偽造パスポートを使って地主に成り済まし、積水ハウスと売買契約を締結。小切手など計５５億５０００万円をだまし取るなどした。（2020/06/10-15:44）

Tokyo District Court on Wednesday sentenced a 60-year-old man to 11 years in prison over a high-profile land fraud case in Japan's capital that caused massive losses to Sekisui House Ltd. .
   Presiding Judge Minoru Morishita said that Misao Kaminsukasu "actively played an important part in the crime." Public prosecutors had sought a prison term of 14 years for the defendant.
   During the signing of the deal, Kaminsukasu accompanied a person who pretended to be a landowner and took steps to cover it up, the judge said, adding that he was a key figure in the case and obtained at least 100 million yen as his share of the profit from the fake transaction.
   Kaminsukasu's defense team claimed his innocence, saying that he did not know the landowner was a fake. But the ruling said that there are "many unnatural and unreasonable" points in Kaminsukasu's statements if he had believed that the landowner was genuine.
   Between March 2017 and June the same year, Kaminsukasu and other fraudsters signed a contract with Sekisui House on the sale to the firm of the site for a former hotel in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward, with one of them impersonating the owner of the land by using a bogus passport, according to the ruling.