「買収リスト」隠滅か　河井前法相ＰＣ、データ消去―公選法違反・検察当局

　昨夏参院選をめぐり、広島県の地元政界に多額の現金が配布された公選法違反事件で、買収容疑で逮捕された衆院議員の前法相、河井克行容疑者（５７）＝自民離党＝が現金配布先をまとめた「買収リスト」のデータを消去しようとした疑いがあることが２２日、関係者への取材で分かった。データは克行容疑者のパソコン（ＰＣ）で管理されていたという。
　東京地検特捜部と広島地検は、電子データを分析、捜査に生かす「デジタルフォレンジック」（電子鑑識、ＤＦ）の技術でリストを復元。克行容疑者が証拠隠滅を図った疑いがあるとみて捜査しているもようだ。
　検察当局は３月、東京・永田町にある議員会館内の克行容疑者と参院議員の妻、案里容疑者（４６）＝同＝の議員事務所を家宅捜索。克行容疑者が事務所で使用していたＰＣを押収した。
　内部データの消去を図った形跡があったが、ＤＦで復元したところ、広島県議や県内の首長、市議らの名前などをリスト化したデータが見つかったという。（2020/06/22-18:54）

Former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai, who was arrested last week for alleged vote-buying, is suspected of trying to delete from his personal computer data on lists of people to whom he distributed cash, it was learned Monday.
   The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation unit and the Hiroshima District Public Prosecutors Office recovered the erased data through digital forensic technology.
   They believe that he may have sought to destroy evidence related to the allegation that he distributed cash to scores of local politicians in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, to round up votes for his wife, Anri, in the July 2019 election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament, in violation of the public offices election law.
   Katsuyuki's PC was seized during the raid of a Tokyo office of the 57-year-old member of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, in March this year.
   Sources said that traces of attempts to erase the computer's internal data were found, and that the prosecutors recovered lists of the names of members of the Hiroshima prefectural assembly, the Hiroshima city assembly and mayors of municipalities in the prefecture.