Keigo Hagiwara “Kansai Electric Power makes management responsibility decision after investigation” October 1, 13:45
Kansai Electric's executives received an opaque gold item exceeding 300 million yen, and the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry thought that Kansai Electric Power should judge its management responsibility based on a third-party investigation. Showed.
Kansai Electric Power has revealed that 20 people, including the chairman and president, received a total of 320 million yen of money from former assistants in Takahama-cho, Fukui, where Kansai Electric Power's nuclear power plant is located. .
On this occasion, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Hagiwara pointed out again at the press conference after the cabinet meeting on the 1st that "It was a very big problem that we received a lot of money in an opaque form for many years."
On that basis, Mr. Sugawara stated that Kansai Electric Power will make a judgment on the management responsibility of the company after Kansai Electric Power will make a decision after a highly transparent and fair report from an independent third-party organization. He expressed the idea that responsibilities should be clarified.