Disciplinary action for our employees

September 17, 2014
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Kanto Regional Head Office

NEXCO EAST Kanto Regional Head Office (Taito-ku, Tokyo) is the result of an employee working at the Saku management office in the jurisdiction (hereinafter referred to as "Saku (tube)") committing misconduct regarding our business expenses. We will inform you that the employee was dismissed as a disciplinary measure because of the damage.

We will immediately work to prevent recurrence, and will make further efforts to maintain the discipline so that such scandals will never occur again.

1 Employee concerned

Person in charge of working at Saku (tube) (58 years old, joined the company in March 1980)

2 Contents of disciplinary action

As of August 27, 2014, the employee has been punished as a disciplinary dismissal.

3 Summary of misconduct

The said employee was in charge of "construction work of a home garage, etc." and "costs required for vehicle maintenance of a private car" (hereinafter referred to as "garage cost") owned by the employee. ) Disguised as if it was an outsourcing cost from the order receiving company for the vehicle maintenance work related to the order to an external company, and let us pay the garage costs that the employee should originally bear.

 当該社員の上記行為により弊社が被った損害額は、現時点において、約14百万円と把握しています。

4 History of fraud detection

  1. In June 2014, the ordering company reported that an internal investigation found a fact that an improper claim was suspected in the claims addressed to us.
  2. Immediately after receiving this, we interviewed the employee concerned and confirmed the facts with the ordering company, and the facts of the misconduct were clarified so far.

5 Response to fraud

  1. Regarding the recovery of the damage suffered by our company, we are considering a claim for compensation to the employee concerned and we are also in discussion with the contracting company.
  2. We are consulting with the police station regarding criminal penalties for the employee.

6 Response to prevent recurrence

In the future, we will seriously analyze the causes of this scandal, re-inspect the entire organization, promote further compliance, and strive to prevent recurrence.