Unauthorized traffic on Expressway by employees of group companies

East Nippon Expressway Co., Ltd. Group company NEXCO-Toll Kantou Co., Ltd. (Sumida-ku, Tokyo, President and Chief Executive Officer: Shuichi Ishikawa) employee using Expressway for private use It turned out that some of the tolls were waived.

Therefore, NEXCO-Toll Kantou Co., Ltd. sent three employees involved in illegal traffic to disciplinary dismissal on September 17, 2010, and at the same time, the Company notified Ibaraki Prefectural Police on December 21. Submitted

Regarding this matter, due to a request from the police due to obstacles to the investigation, we have withheld disclosure until today.

We sincerely apologize for causing a great deal of inconvenience to our customers and other parties concerned, and for causing a situation in which we lose trust.

Going forward, we will work to further raise awareness of compliance, prevent recurrence, and restore trust.

During the investigation on illegal traffic that we have been working on for a long time, we asked the employee himself that there was a suspicion of illegal traffic on the vehicle used by toll collector A (64 years old, male, living in Takahagi City). As a result, we confirmed the fact that there were a total of four illegal traffics.

In addition, during the investigation process, one of the four illegal tolls carried out by toll collector A was unlawful due to the conspiracy of toll collector B (48 years old, female, living in Hitachi City) while riding in the vehicle. Regarding what was done, two out of the four tolls were confirmed by the toll collector C (64 years old, male, living in Hitachi City) who was working at the exit toll booth, while recognizing the possibility of tolling. It turned out that he was neglecting to report.

When paying at the exit toll booth, they falsely declared that they had flowed in from a nearby interchange, and were illegally exempted from paying the difference in toll charges four times in total.

11,000 yen (four times of illegal traffic from December 2, 2009 to March 9, 2010)