re: New Olympus CEO fired after raising questions on $1.5B in hidden losses

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During a hastily held press conference, Tatsuo Kainaka (pictured above), a former judge and chairman of the panel was repeatedly unable to account for who was paid to assist in the cover-up, how much they were paid, or where the billions of yen used to cover up the losses had gone. But he did insist that no money had gone to “anti-social forces” (??????), a term used by Japanese law enforcement and regulatory agencies to refer to any group of criminals, including Japan’s yakuza. Kainaka was nervous at the press conference, stumbling over accounting terminology and unable to recall when the former CEO of Olympus, Toshiro Shimoyama, had actually left the company and whether or not he was implicated in the financial fraud.

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