Hitachi Metals, a major metal manufacturer, has released a report that it has been delivered to more than 1,700 companies, which is about 10% of customers, since the 1980s due to fraudulent activities such as rewriting documents that guarantee product quality. did.
The company has also decided to dispose of reducing the compensation of top management.
In April last year, Hitachi Metals revealed that fraudulent activities such as rewriting the numerical values of documents for guaranteeing the quality of special steel used for automobile parts and shipping without performing necessary inspections were carried out. , A special investigation committee made up of outside lawyers was conducting the investigation.
According to a report released on the 28th, inspection fraud has been carried out since the 1980s, and it has been delivered to 1747 companies, which is about 10% of customers.
In addition, the report points out that although successive on-site managers such as the factory manager were aware of fraud, they did not report to customers or instruct drastic improvements.
In addition, when the fraud was discovered and the situation was reported to the parent company Hitachi, some aircraft and energy-related parts were excluded from the target, and false explanations were given to customers. It is said.
In response to a series of problems, five executives, including President Koji Sato, retired in May last year in the form of taking management responsibility, but the company will also pay Chairman and President Mitsuaki Nishiyama over the next three months. We have decided to take new measures to reduce the compensation of 10 officers, such as a 50% reduction.
Hitachi Metals Chairman and President "We will do our best to prevent recurrence"
Mitsuaki Nishiyama, Chairman and President of Hitachi Metals, said in a telephone interview, "It is a pity that fraud has been carried out for a long time with various products and could not be corrected so far. We apologize again. We will do our utmost to implement recurrence prevention measures and continue our efforts to regain trust. "