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Japanese shareholder sues Olympus board for firing former chief executive Michael Woodford
A single Japanese shareholder of scandal-hit Olympus has sued 14 board members who sacked whistle-blowing British former chief executive Michael Woodford, according to lawyers. The shareholder, an anonymous man living in western Japan, filed the lawsuit, demanding the executives pay Olympus 1.34 billion yen ($17.5 million) for costs resulting from Woodford’s firing, one of his…