首相の名挙げ３０万円　河井前法相「安倍さんから」―参院選買収・検察当局

　昨夏参院選をめぐり、広島県の地元政界に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、安倍晋三首相の名前を挙げて現金を提供したケースがあったことが２５日、関係者への取材で分かった。参院議員の妻、案里容疑者（４６）＝同＝の後援会幹部を務めた町議によると、克行容疑者は「安倍さんから」と３０万円を差し出したという。
　昨夏参院選では、安倍首相の秘書も広島入りして案里容疑者を支援していたといい、東京地検特捜部などは町議からも任意で事情聴取し、総額約２５７０万円に上る大型買収事件の解明を急いでいるもようだ。（2020/06/25-18:22）

Former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai, who has been arrested for alleged vote-buying, mentioned Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's name when distributing cash last year, it was learned Thursday.
   According to a town assembly member who was a senior official in the supporters' group for Kawai's wife, Anri, in her election campaign last summer, the 57-year-old former minister handed the assembly member 300,000 yen in cash, saying that it was "from Abe."
   Kawai allegedly distributed cash to local politicians in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, in an attempt to buy votes for Anri, 46, in the July election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the Diet, the country's parliament.
   Secretaries to Abe are said to have visited Hiroshima to support Anri's campaign.
   The special unit of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office is questioning the town assembly member and others voluntarily over the distribution of 25.7 million yen in total by the Kawais allegedly to buy votes.