In a trial in which three former executives of TEPCO were forcibly indicted for professional negligence causing death and injury over the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, the Tokyo High Court acquitted all three following the first trial. I was.
Tsunehisa Katsumata (82), who was the chairman of TEPCO, and defendants Ichiro Takekuro (76) and Sakae Muto (72), who were vice presidents of Tokyo Electric Power Co. He was forcibly indicted for professional negligence causing death and injury by the decision of the Public Prosecutor's Examination Board, and all three were acquitted in the first trial.
The biggest point of contention is the reliability of the "long-term evaluation" of the earthquake announced by a national agency in 2002, nine years before the earthquake. They should have been able to predict that a tsunami exceeding 100,000 tsunami would come." While claiming that the three had negligence in preventing the accident, the former management once again claimed their innocence, saying, "There is no scientific credibility." Did.
In the second trial on the 18th, presiding judge Keisuke Hosoda of the Tokyo High Court acquitted all three following the first trial.