In a trial in which TEPCO shareholders are seeking compensation from five former management teams in the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it has been decided that the former management team will be cross-examined from May next year.
More than 50 shareholders of TEPCO are asking the company to compensate the five former management for the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, saying that "the accident occurred due to neglect of safety measures."
At the trial on the 25th, the Tokyo District Court decided to cross-examine five former TEPCO executives in May and July next year.
Former Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, Former President Masataka Shimizu, Former Vice President Ichiro Takekuro, Former Vice President Sakae Mutou, and Former Managing Director Akio Komori will be cross-examined.
Of these, former chairman Katsumata, former vice president Takekuro, and former vice president Muto were forcibly charged with fatal accidents in business, and were acquitted in the first instance, and former president Shimizu and former managing director Komori are the first. You will be in court.
It was also decided to cross-examine nuclear engineers and earthquake experts prior to the cross-examination of the former management.