About the lawsuit for damages claims for steel bridge superstructure construction ordered by the Japan Highway Public Corporation

East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd., Central Japan Expressway Co., Ltd., West Japan Expressway Co., Ltd., and Japan Expressway Owned and Debt Repayment Organization, Japan Highway Public Corporation from FY2002 to 16 Regarding the bid rigging related to the steel bridge superstructure construction ordered in the fiscal year, we have filed a lawsuit today for damages against the entrepreneur, etc.

• On June 25 of this year, 49 companies (57 companies actually invoiced due to company split, etc.) received orders for construction work, as well as claims for damages related to bid participation (126 cases, total amount of about 8,944 million yen) ), of which 30 companies who did not respond to the payment were sued for the payment to the Tokyo High Court under Article 25 of the Antimonopoly Act (38 cases, totaling 2,671 million yen).
• One of the amount of charges against the above-mentioned business operator against two former executives of the Japan Highway Public Corporation who were involved in rigging and two former employees of Yokogawa Bridge Co., Ltd. (former) who had decided a successful bidder and its user We filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo District Court under Articles 709 and 715 of the Civil Code (a total of 1,409 million yen) seeking payment by the department.
• In addition, Nakanihon Expressway Co., Ltd. has filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court under Article 709 of the Civil Code for damages based on the act of transgression against two former officers of the Japan Highway Public Corporation (amount of appeal of 47,800,000 yen).