Kyoto University Primate Research Institute Unauthorized expenditure totals more than 500 million yen To disciplinary action June 26 18:15
A problem that was being investigated at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute regarding the possibility that research funds might have been illegally spent over the construction of the facility.Kyoto University held a press conference and made a fictitious deal. In the case, it announced that there was an illegal expenditure of research funds totaling more than 500 million yen, and clarified the policy of disciplinary action in the future.
Kyoto University held a press conference on the 26th, and four former professors of Kyoto University Primate Research Institute Tetsuro Matsuzawa and Masami Tomonaga will join the chimpanzee of the research institute and related facilities for four years until 2014. In the construction of Noori, we made 34 cases including excessive spending and fictitious transactions, and announced that the total amount of fraudulent research expenses was more than 506.7 million yen.
Yoshio Shiomi, Vice President of Kyoto University, apologized, "I deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused to the people involved and the people." He explained that the injustice seemed to have been done to compensate for the deficit that occurred in the trade through the transaction, and there was no private diversion, he explained to the survey results.
In response to the survey, the professors said that "I wanted to deal with a trader who complained about the plight", the university side relied on a specific company, lack of legal awareness and neglect of accounting system There was.
In addition, we will work to prevent recurrence by strengthening the system for checking contract procedures, and we will discipline four persons in the future.