Japan's NHK says staff suspected of insider trading
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Two reporters and a director at public broadcaster NHK are being investigated by Japan's securities watchdog for suspected insider trading using information from an internal editing system, Kyodo news agency reported NHK as saying on Thursday.
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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer yesterday said crimes were committed in a Hewlett-Packard Co. investigation of board members ' possible involvement in corporate information leaks , and charges are likely to be brought against either company executives or private investigators they hired .
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Tax investigators probing Japanese electronics maker NEC Corp. have found that employees placed fake orders and took kickbacks, compounding the problems at a company long dogged by accounting troubles and possibly facing a Nasdaq delisting.
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Citigroup's top executive in Japan  endured unprecedented questioning by lawmakers on Tuesday over  a scandal at the firm's private bank in the country, the latest  turn in a high-profile case that has embarrassed the world's  biggest financial company.
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An investigation has begun into whether Wall Street bank employees are leaking information about big trades to favored clients.
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An accounting firm in Hong Kong is accused of making $2.7 million from illegal insider trades by hacking into computers to view press releases before they were published.
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An executive allegedly involved in a bid-rigging scam that has been linked to the suicide of Japan's agriculture minister leaped to his death Tuesday, officials said. The deaths have added to the pressure on a government struggling against a series of scandals.
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Japan&#39;s Defense Agency suspects that an unidentified submarine sighted in Japanese waters early Wednesday was a Chinese nuclear submarine, Kyodo News reports.
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Several Japanese media outlets received a statement from a suspected Japanese ultra-leftist extremist group claiming responsibility for two small explosions outside a U.S. military base south of Tokyo, police said Saturday.
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Hewlett-Packard staff could be indicted over the firm's probe into media leaks, California's attorney general says.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange  Commission is investigating Dow Jones & Co. Inc. board member  David Li over an insider trading case linked to News Corp.&#39;s  bid for the Wall Street Journal publisher, Dow Jones reported  on Wednesday.
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Fujitsu says it has found fictitious transactions at one of its subsidiaries, confirming a newspaper report.
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A Japanese trade minister has linked the recent intrusion of a suspected Chinese nuclear submarine into Japanese waters with China's natural gas exploration near islands disputed by the two countries.
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Japan began sending warnings to an estimated 8.5 million people Monday that their pension data may have gone missing, as the government seeks to clean up a scandal that has damaged its credibility.
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The largest faction in Japan&#39;s ruling party plunged into a crisis over a funding scandal on Monday as speculation mounted that prosecutors were about to question a former prime minister who had led the group.
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Shares in Japanese electronics group Sanyo sink on news that watchdogs are investigating its accounts.
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Business & money: Criminal investigation into possible fraud and insider trading involves some of world's largest banks