TOKYO (Reuters) – The whistleblower in the accounting scandal engulfing Japan’s Olympus Corp, ex-CEO Michael Woodford, has quit the firm’s board of directors and called for an urgent shareholder meeting to sweep aside its disgraced top brass.
Woodford said on Thursday that his exit from the board, seven weeks after he raised the alarm over accounting tricks at the maker of cameras and medical equipment, would enable a clean-out of directors and pave the way for his own return to the top job.
“Let me make it explicitly clear: I am not walking away from Olympus,” Woodford said in a statement issued in New York, where he met Federal Bureau of Investigations officials investigating the Olympus scandal, which involved some U.S. firms.
“I would like nothing more than to return to Olympus and lead it towards achieving this status (of a world-class organization),” added the Briton, who was a rare foreign CEO in
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