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Suzuki heads rolling over fuel economy scandal

Wed, Jun 8 2016 Suzuki Motor Corporation executives admitted last month that the company had been falsifying fuel-economy tests for some of its vehicles. Today, it was announced that chairman Osamu Suzuki will not become CEO and executive vice president Osamu Honda will step down from his position at the next shareholder meeting, which takes place June 29. Executive bonuses for 2015 will also be eliminated or cut in half. The company is also promising to change its corporate culture so as to allow whistle blowers to get their messages heard.

"Suzuki has a top-down culture and it's been difficult for voices from lower down to go to the management," Toshihiro Suzuki (Osamu's son) told reporters, according to Bloomberg. Both Suzuki family members will take a pay cut for the last half of 2016 (Osamu at 40 percent, Toshihiro at 30).

Over 2 million Suzuki vehicles were involved in the fuel economy fakery. Japan's transport ministry is taking a closer look at company-submitted data after Mitsubishi and then Suzuki were found to have misled regulators and the public.

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  • News Source: Bloomberg
  • Image Credit: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images
  • Government/Legal
  • Green
  • Hirings/Firings/Layoffs
  • Suzuki
  • Fuel Efficiency
  • resignation
  • osamu suzuki

By Sebastian Blanco


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