Olympus panel clears auditing firms of blame in scandal
People walk past a signboard of Olympus Corp outside its showroom in Tokyo January 12, 2012.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Accounting groups KPMG and Ernst & Young have been cleared of responsibility for a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at Japan's Olympus Corp, one of the nation's worst corporate scandals, in a report issued on Tuesday by a company-appointed panel of lawyers.
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Yoko Kubota and Nobuhiro Kubo
TOKYO
Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:09pm EST
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