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Tokyo Adult Entertainment: Olympus sues execs over scandal, shares surge

TOKYO — Japan’s disgraced Olympus Corp is suing its president and 18 other executives, past and present, for up to $47 US million in compensation, as it struggles to recover from one of the nation’s worst accounting scandals.Photograph by: Handout, Vancouver Sun

Olympus shares surged as much as 28 per cent on the news, with investors betting the company’s clean-up efforts would help it avoid a humiliating delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, in turn helping to ensure it stayed on bidders’ radars. The stock ended up 20 per cent.

Rights issues are 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.

See the full article from “Vancouver Sun”

~ by iarryflint on January 10, 2012.

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