The Supreme Court on Friday acquitted three former top executives of the failed Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, who were indicted for window-dressing the bank's financial statements to conceal massive bad loans and authorizing
illegal dividend payments, overruling the lower courts' guilty verdict.
on Tuesday corrected its unconsolidated earnings for the past several years and admitted that it had paid some 28 billion yen in
illegal dividend payouts when necessary profits to justify such payouts were lacking.
6 billion yen in damages from 13 former executives, including three former presidents, for losses stemming from alleged
illegal dividend payments and questionable loans.
The bank filed the lawsuits with the Utsunomiya District Court against some 10 former managers, including the former presidents -- Hisao Mukae, Yoshio Yanagita and Shin Iizuka -- claiming they had made
illegal dividend payouts and extended loans that were deemed irrecoverable, according to the regional bank which is based in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture.
The bank said the former executives made
illegal dividend payments of 1.
The action was taken as the executives are responsible for negligence of duty and
illegal dividend payments, Kazuhiko Shimokobe said after filing the suit with the Tokyo District Court.
The
illegal dividend payments were deemed to infringe on the Commercial Code.
The RCC believes that the
illegal dividend payments could have been avoided if Ota Showa had implemented an appropriate audit, the sources said.
796 billion yen loss through
illegal dividend payments.
75 billion of what they said were
illegal dividends received from oil company OAO Bashneft.
The taxman is increasingly likely to argue that excessive or
illegal dividends should be re-classed as earnings or be repayable to the company," he said.
