Ex-Olympus Chief Said to Face Questions From SEC in U.S.
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Former Olympus Corp. President Michael C. Woodford was asked to return for a second interview by U.S. investigators -- this time including the Securities and Exchange Commission -- in a federal probe of hundreds of millions of dollars in advisory fees paid by the Japanese company, a person familiar with the matter said.
Woodford, the whistleblower who was fired after he asked the board to review the payments made as part of acquisitions, voluntarily traveled from the U.K. to New York last month to meet with FBI agents and prosecutors from the complex fraud unit of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, said the person.