According to the announcement, the American subsidiary of Kobe Steel asked for submission of related materials on the thing that tampering inspection data with products sold to US customers from the Justice Department on 16th It was done.

Although this subsidiary is supervising the business in the US, Kobe Steel said it will cooperate with the subsidiary in the survey, but a series of problems are caused by the judicial authorities of the United States in the investigation It has developed.

Since Kobe Steel found tampering with inspection data on a part of aluminum and copper products on the 8th of this month, the corruption was revealed one after another, and last week, We have announced that there was tampering with products.

The shipping destination of problematic products has expanded to approximately 500 companies, and it is known that they were shipping to aircraft manufacturer Boeing and automaker GM = General Motors etc. even in the USA I will.

In the case of Japanese companies investigated by the US Department of Justice in the past, "Takata", an automobile parts manufacturer, paid over 110 billion yen in fines for the problem of airbag malfunction, There are examples in which "Denso" of automobile parts manufacturers paid a fine of about 6 billion yen as a bid rigging over the price of the product.