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SANYO ELECTRIC: Admits Paying JPY28-Bil. Dividends Illegally
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., acknowledged that it made illegal dividend payments worth about JPY28 billion in five six-month terms in the past amid a lack of resources, Jiji Press reports.
It was learned by Jiji Press that Sanyo paid JPY3 per share for the April-September period of fiscal 2002, 2003, and 2004 and the October-March period of fiscal 2002 and 2003.
Jiji Press relates that according to its sources, Sanyo should have seen profits in those terms decline sharply and should have been unable to pay the dividends if it did not defer necessary accounting steps like the booking of losses on subsidiaries.
In a separate report, Jiji Press said Sanyo will forgo retirement payments totaling about JPY1.2 billion to executives and auditors who served during the years in question. "It has planned to make the payments to 60 such officials including former Chairman Satoshi Iue after its business recovery," the report added.
Sanyo President Seiichiro Sano and six other executives will take additional pay cuts of 10% for six months, the report cited the company as saying.
About Sanyo Electric
Headquartered in Osaka, Japan, Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. -- http://www.sanyo.com/ -- is one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer electronics products. The company has global operations in Brazil, Germany, India, Ireland, Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom, among others.
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In March 2, 2007, Fitch Ratings placed SANYO Electric Co. Ltd.'s BB+ long-term foreign and local currency issuer default and senior unsecured ratings on rating watch negative.
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