Leader paper maker Daio Paper Corp said Friday it intends to file a criminal complaint against former chairman Mototaka Ikawa over 10.68 billion yen in loans which he demanded from seven group companies on 26 occasions from May 2010 to September this year.
Ikawa is the grandson of the company's founder. His father, Takao Ikawa is a company adviser, and his younger brother Takahiro sits on the board of directors. The company dismissed the father and the younger brother on Friday. Ikawa resigned last month.
NHK reported that an in-house investigative panel will demand that Ikawa explain where the money went. Ikawa has repaid 4.75 billion yen, but has not said what he did with the rest.
He reportedly spent the bulk of the money on high living and gambling in Macao.
The panel said that Ikawa would call the heads of the subsidiary companies and tell them how much money to deposit in his personal bank account or the account of a Japanese firm that operates casinos in Las Vegas and Macao, NHK reported.
No collateral was asked for and the board of directors were never informed, the panel said.
Employees were quoted as saying that no one dared questioned the orders of any of the Ikawa family.
© Japan Today
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wanderlust
Employees were quoted as saying that no one dared questioned the orders of any of the Ikawa family.
Feudal Japan lives on in the 21st century...
smithinjapan
Ah, more Japanese company business, and nepotism at that. Olympus stand aside!
herefornow
Huge missing piece of information in this article -- Is Daio a publicly traded/owned company? If so, this is worse than Olympus. I mean the fact that someone could get over $140.0 million simply by demanding it is just unbelievable. Are there no controls at all in these companies?
Hategobo
With interest rates at a level that does not encourage people to save with a bank many people buy shares to plan for their old age.These vermin directors are robbing people of their future by embezzling the company money.I really have no respect for these people and they dont deserve my respect or sympathy. Bullying dictatorial management style seems to be normal practice.
Yubaru
Yes it is, currently trading at around 600 yen per share.
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=3880:JP
Jared Norman
which company is next week, olympus last week daio this week.
ihavegreatlegs
Now sing along folks. O L Y M P U S Olympus boooooooooooo
Elbuda Mexicano
These retards running these kind of companies, well, DESERVE everything coming to them, lots of jail time, no more respect nor trust from anybody here in Japan and I guess from all over the world except for Geko?? The dude on that movie, GREED IS GOOD, now I can not remember the name of that movie, but I completely agree with Ms.Greatlegs!
ratpack
A mighty huge chunk of it has been thrown across the tables in Las Vegas.
Liz Loan
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