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Obituary: Hisashi Shinto
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:07:05 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: AMBOLLC () aol com Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:48:59 -0500 (EST) To: dave () farber net Subject: Obituary: Hisashi Shinto Hisashi Shinto TOKYO (AP) - Hisashi Shinto, the first president of Japanese telecommunications giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. - who was forced to resign over a bribery scandal in the late 1980s - died Sunday of pneumonia, a company official said. He was 92. As president, Shinto led the former government-run utility through privatization, overseeing the company's initial public offering of shares in April 1985. He was appointed chairman in June 1988. Six months later, Shinto resigned in a bribery scandal tied to the information-media enterprise Recruit Co. The scandal exposed corruption among business and government leaders. In March 1989, Shinto was arrested on charges of profiting from stocks received in the deal. The Tokyo District Court convicted him in 1990, sentencing him to a two-year suspended prison term. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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