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Kansai Electric to sue former execs for damages over bribery scandal

National / Crime & Legal Jun 12, 2020

Kansai Electric to sue former execs for damages over bribery scandal

Outside lawyers have concluded that five former executives inflicted some ¥1.3 billion in damages to the company.

A closer look at Kansai Electric and its gift-giving scandal

Business | EXPLAINER Mar 29, 2020

A closer look at Kansai Electric and its gift-giving scandal

by Eric Johnston

Earlier this month, Kansai Electric Power Co. concluded that scores of its employees had received cash and gifts worth hundreds of millions of yen from an influential politician in a Fukui Prefecture town where the utility operates a nuclear power plant. The revelations by ...

Kansai Electric ordered to improve operations over bribery scandal

Business / Corporate Mar 15, 2020

Kansai Electric ordered to improve operations over bribery scandal

The government on Monday ordered Kansai Electric Power Co. to improve its business operations following a bribery scandal involving the former deputy mayor of a town hosting one of its nuclear plants. Taizo Takahashi, head of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency, summoned Kansai Electric ...

Mayor of Saga town that hosts nuclear plant admits he got cash from firm tied to Kepco scandal

National Jan 23, 2020

Mayor of Saga town that hosts nuclear plant admits he got cash from firm tied to Kepco scandal

Shintaro Wakiyama said that the money was received days after he was elected, in July 2018, from a then executive of Shiohama Industry Corp.

Kepco investigative panel admits it won't make year-end deadline for report on Takahama gift scandal

National Dec 16, 2019

Kepco investigative panel admits it won't make year-end deadline for report on Takahama gift scandal

A third-party panel investigating the gift scandal at Kansai Electric Power Co., or Kepco, involving its executives and a former deputy mayor said Sunday it had interviewed over 700 people since October but would not be able to meet the utility's year-end deadline. "It is ...

109 Fukui officials received money in Kansai Electric gift scandal

National Nov 22, 2019

109 Fukui officials received money in Kansai Electric gift scandal

A total of 109 current and former Fukui prefectural officials received money and other gifts, some worth up to ¥200,000, from a former Takahama deputy mayor who is at the heart of a gift scandal involving Kansai Electric Power Co., an investigative committee said ...

National Oct 10, 2019

Gifts and donations link official in Kepco scandal to second nuclear plant and ex-trade minister Hiroshige Seko

A former senior Kansai Electric Power Co. official said Thursday he received gift coupons in the 1990s from a former deputy mayor of a town hosting one of the company's nuclear power plants, though he was in charge of a plant outside the town. Eiji ...

LDP chapter led by ex-defense chief Inada got donations from firm with ties to man at heart of Kepco scandal

National Oct 5, 2019

LDP chapter led by ex-defense chief Inada got donations from firm with ties to man at heart of Kepco scandal

A chapter of the ruling party headed by former Defense Minister Tomomi Inada received donations from a security company linked to an influential person at the center of a money scandal involving Kansai Electric Power Co., informed sources said. The Liberal Democratic Party chapter received ...

Ex-Kepco exec admits receiving 'outrageous' gift in 1990s, suggesting collusion went back decades

National Oct 3, 2019

Ex-Kepco exec admits receiving 'outrageous' gift in 1990s, suggesting collusion went back decades

Auditors at Kansai Electric Power Co. were aware that officials had received improper gifts even before a general shareholders meeting in June, and had raised questions on how management had dealt with the issue, sources close to the matter said Thursday. The latest revelation has ...

Kepco says two execs in nuclear division pocketed bulk of ¥318 million from Takahama official

National Oct 2, 2019

Kepco says two execs in nuclear division pocketed bulk of ¥318 million from Takahama official

Kepco said that among 20 staff who received gifts from a former town official, two executives in its nuclear business were each given gifts valued at over ¥100 million.

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