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Former Mitsubishi Motors officials convicted over defects
0 Comments | AFP, December, 2007
TOKYO (AFP) — A Japanese court on Thursday convicted two former officials at Mitsubishi Motors of negligence resulting in death over truck defects that caused a fatal accident.
The Yokohama District Court handed 18-month prison sentences, suspended for three years, to Hiroshi Murakawa, who was in charge of quality control, and Hirotoshi Miki, a former section chief.
"They assume great responsibility for leaving defects in vehicles and causing accidents," said presiding judge Nobuyuki Kiguchi.
The case was brought over a 2002 accident in which a 29-year-old woman was killed and her two sons injured by a tyre that came off a moving trailer truck in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo.
The court said the two men knew of the defects after seeing a number of...
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