{"id":4364,"date":"2009-09-09T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T22:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2009-09-09T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T22:31:58","slug":"eikaiwa-nova-embezzler-and-former-boss-saruhashi-gets-his-3-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=4364","title":{"rendered":"Eikaiwa NOVA embezzler and former boss Saruhashi gets his: 3.5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Blog. \u00a0Sorry to be so late in reporting this, but some good news a couple of weeks ago: \u00a0Eikaiwa NOVA embezzler and former boss Saruhashi gets his: \u00a0sentenced to 3.5 years in the clink. \u00a0No word if the employees are going to get their money back, however.<\/p>\n

More background details on this case here<\/strong><\/a> (plug in the word “sahashi”) into search engine. \u00a0More on Debito.org<\/a><\/strong> here.<\/p>\n

Arudou Debito in Nagoya<\/p>\n

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Nova boss handed 3 1\/2 years
\nBy ERIC JOHNSTON
\nStaff writer
\nThe Japan Times Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

OSAKA \u2014 Former <\/em><\/strong>Nova<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\"\" President Nozomu Sahashi was sentenced Wednesday to 3 1\/2 years in prison by the Osaka District Court for his role in skimming off employee funds in 2007, just before the foreign language school giant’s bankruptcy that October.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Presiding Judge Hiroaki Higuchi’s severe sentence took some in the courtroom by surprise. Prosecutors had sought five years for the former president of what was once the country’s largest foreign language school chain and employer of foreign nationals. Sahashi is expected to appeal the sentence.<\/em><\/strong><\/span> …<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sahashi was charged with funneling nearly \u00a5320 million from employee benefit funds to a bank account belonging to a Nova affiliate in July 2007. He denied embezzling the funds, telling the court he used the money on behalf of his employees.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He tried to portray himself as only one of a group of senior Nova executives responsible for the decision. But the judge said that given the amount of money and his authority, Sahashi bore a heavy responsibility for the crime.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Rest of the article at<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/nn20090827a1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japan Times Aug 27: Former Nova President Nozomu Sahashi was sentenced Wednesday to 3 1\/2 years in prison by the Osaka District Court for his role in skimming off employee funds in 2007, just before the foreign language school giant’s bankruptcy that October.<\/p>\n

Presiding Judge Hiroaki Higuchi’s severe sentence took some in the courtroom by surprise. Prosecutors had sought five years for the former president of what was once the country’s largest foreign language school chain and employer of foreign nationals. Sahashi is expected to appeal the sentence. …<\/p>\n

Sahashi was charged with funneling nearly \u00a5320 million from employee benefit funds to a bank account belonging to a Nova affiliate in July 2007. He denied embezzling the funds, telling the court he used the money on behalf of his employees.<\/p>\n

He tried to portray himself as only one of a group of senior Nova executives responsible for the decision. But the judge said that given the amount of money and his authority, Sahashi bore a heavy responsibility for the crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,35,37,16,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-business-practices","category-good-news","category-injustice","category-labor-issues","category-lawsuits","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}