Hidden gold and 'murky' payoffs threaten Japan's nuclear revival
A payoff scandal has struck Japan's nuclear world, threatening to delay the restart of idled reactors in what's becoming the industry's biggest crisis since the Fukushima meltdowns of 2011. The issue, which emerged at the end of last month, centers around how an influential municipal ...
Kepco promoted three execs despite letters detailing shady gifts from deputy mayor
President Shigeki Iwane read the accusatory letters but went ahead with the promotions anyway because discipline had already been meted out, Kansai Electric said.
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 ...
Pressure mounts for Kepco to be more transparent over gift-giving scandal
Calls are growing in political circles — both locally and nationally — for Kansai Electric Power Co. to reveal the full extent of the graft related to the gift giving scandal and one of its nuclear plants that forced its chairman and other executives ...
Kepco Chairman Makoto Yagi quits post over gift scandal linked to Fukui nuclear plant
Kansai Electric Power Chairman Makoto Yagi resigned Wednesday after criticism over his receipt of gifts from a former official of a town that hosts one of the firm’s nuclear plants.
After criticism, Kepco weighs rules on executive punishment amid gift scandal
The move follows criticism of the leniency in the way six were reprimanded for receiving gifts from a former town official.
Managers of Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Kyoto branch received gifts worth ¥2.6 million from a former Fukui Prefecture town official.
Kepco shared contract details of 83 nuclear-related projects with Takahama's deputy mayor
Kansai Electric reportedly told the deputy mayor of a town hosting one of its nuclear plants about dozens of projects that a construction firm linked to him won.
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
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.
Construction firm linked to Takahama official in Kepco scandal won ¥3 billion in orders from utility
A construction company linked to a late former deputy mayor of Takahama, Fukui Prefecture, at the center of a money scandal involving Kansai Electric Power Co. received orders worth at least ¥3 billion directly or indirectly from the Kepco group over four years, it ...
Kepco to disclose names of 20 executives involved in Fukui nuclear scandal
They received money and goods from a former deputy mayor of a town that hosted a Kepco nuclear plant.
