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.
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.
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.
