Unauthorized traffic on Expressway by employees of group companies

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June 23, 2010
East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd.
Kanto Regional Head Office

East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. group company of NEXCO-Toll Kitakantou Co., Ltd. (Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, President and Chief Executive Officer: Hiroshi Katori) employees is, is for me Expressway when passing a toll by an unauthorized passage way It turned out that some of the payment was illegally escaped.

Therefore, NEXCO-Toll Kitakantou Co., Ltd. has decided to discipline and dismiss the employee as of June 22, 2010.

We sincerely apologize for causing a great deal of inconvenience to our customers and all other parties concerned, and causing a situation in which we have lost credibility.

We, including our group companies, will take this situation seriously and strive to prevent a recurrence.

[Outline of the situation]

1 facts

As a result of an investigation into the measures against illegal traffic, there was a suspicion of illegal traffic due to the vehicle used by the toll booth personnel, and when we interviewed the person himself, he found that he had made illegal traffic.

2 Former employees

Fee collector (age 57, male, resident in Maebashi)

3 Techniques for illegal traffic

When paying at the exit toll booth, I made a false declaration that it had flowed in from an IC near the exit toll booth, and thereby illegally avoided the difference from the toll charge that I should pay.

4 Amount of fraudulent relief

39,750 yen (11 times of illegal traffic from September 28, 2009 to March 31, 2010)

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