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Tokyo Adult Entertainment: Japan’s Olympus sues current, former execs over accounting fraud

Olympus seeks up to nearly $50 million in compensation TOKYO – Japan’s disgraced Olympus Corp is suing 19 current and former executives, including its current president, for up to almost $50 million in compensation, as it struggles to recover from one of the nation’s worst accounting scandals.

Olympus shares surged nearly 30 percent on the news, with investors betting the company’s clean-up efforts would help it to avoid a humiliating delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, in turn helping to ensure it stayed on bidders’ radars.

Rights issues are an unwieldy and rare in Japan and private equity firms are often viewed as foreign asset strippers.

Sources told Reuters on Monday that the Tokyo Stock Exchange was likely to keep Olympus listed under a “security on alert” designation, which would effectively enable it to remain traded provided it showed steady improvement in its internal controls.

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~ by iarryflint on January 10, 2012.

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