These guys can’t get a break. And if they are guilty, nor should they. The message here is, if you commit financial crime in Japan, you’re going to get charged several times. Some might call this double jeopardy. It could also just be holding someone to account for all of their actions.
オリンパス損失隠しを指南 した会社社長ら３人起訴
オリンパスによる巨額の損失隠しを「指 南」し、受け取った報酬およそ２２億円を 海外に隠したとしてコンサルティング会社 の社長ら３人が東京地検特捜部に起訴され ました。
組織犯罪処罰法違反の罪で起訴されたの は、コンサルティング会社社長の横尾宣政 被告（５９）ら３人です。起訴状などによ りますと、横尾被告らはオリンパス側から 「粉飾決算」の手口を指南した報酬として 受け取ったおよそ２２億円を海外の複数の 銀行口座に送金し隠していたということで す。
３人はオリンパスによる巨額損失隠し事 件で旧経営陣の共犯として去年、金融商品 取引法違反の罪で逮捕・起訴されていまし た。（01日19:53）
http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye5372154.html
Company president and 2 others charged with teaching how to hide losses at Olympus
The Tokyo Prosecutor’s office charged three men, including the president, at a consulting firm with concealing 2.2 billion yen in compensation overseas received for instructing provided in hiding large losses at Olympus.
Those charged with violations of the Organize Crime Punishment Law are consulting company president and Yoko Nobumasa and two others. According to the indictment, Nobumasa was compensated by Olympus for teaching fraudulent accounting techniques and then hid the approximately 2.2 billion yen in a number of overseas bank accounts.
The three were arrested and charged last year with violation of the Financial Instruments and Transactions Law last year for complicity in the hiding of large losses at Olympus by former managers.
