Mitsubishi former executives not guilty · 2006-12-14 13:34
Japan Times informs, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and three former executives were found not guilty of falsifying reports on defective truck hubs.
One of this trucks caused a death of 29-year-old woman, killed by a tyre fell off a truck in 2002.
Takashi Usami, 66, former vice president of Mitsubishi and former chairman of affiliate Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus, Akio Hanawa, 65, former executive director at Mitsubishi, and Tadashi Koshikawa, 64, Mitsubishi’s former operating officer, had denied the charges.
The defendants were accused of making false reports on defect wheel parts, and avoided vehicle recalls. Mitsubishi revealed in 2004 that it had failed to announce vehicle faults it had known about for four years, sending sales of its cars into decline, reports BBC.
Prosecutors had asked that the maximum penalty, fines of 200,000 yen each, be imposed against the company.
The Transport Ministry of Japan called the decision to allow the trio to walk free “extremely regrettable.”
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