3 ex-Tepco execs indicted over Fukushima disaster
Trio formally charged with professional negligence resulting in deaths and injury
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THREE former executives of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant operator were indicted on Monday over the 2011 atomic accident, in what will be the first criminal trial linked to the disaster.
Ex-Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, then vice-president Sakae Muto and former vice-president Ichiro Takekuro were formally charged with professional negligence resulting in deaths and injury.
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