Olympus ex-chairman gets suspended sentence

If this email is not displayed correctly, please click on the following link or open your browser and paste the link into the address field: http://view.ed4.net/v/8P1R88/WHEG9W/WIETS7/EWTCE3/   Breaking news Wednesday July 03 2013 Breaking News   Olympus ex-chairman gets suspended sentence Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the disgraced former chairman of Olympus, and two other executives received suspended sentences on Wednesday for their role in orchestrating a $1.7bn accounting fraud at the Japanese optical equipment maker. Mr Kikukawa and the other executives, Hisashi Mori and Hideo Yamada, had pleaded guilty to the accusation that they filed false financial reports. Suspended sentences are the norm in such cases in Japan, particularly if the perpetrators are not seen to have personally enriched themselves. http://link.ft.com/r/8P1R88/YGKY42/9Z3GXS/A5Z7GX/YG90ES/RF/h?a1=2013&a2=7&a3=3 Tools Your account    Portfolio Email Briefings    Price alerts Keyword alerts    RSS feeds Subscribe to FT.com     © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 ABOUT THIS EMAIL You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. FT.com Change Briefings  •   Unsubscribe  •   Change Email Address  •   Forward this email to a friend  •   Privacy Policy  •   About Us  •   Help This email was sent by or on behalf of a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723..