Whistle-Blower Laws Fail to Curb Toshiba Executives' Deception

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One of the more intriguing questions stemming from the Toshiba Corp. accounting scandal is this: Where was the whistle-blower?

Top executives at the Japanese industrial conglomerate, which makes everything from refrigerators to nuclear reactors, padded pretax profit by at least 152 billion yen ($1.2 billion) over six years, according to a third-party accounting probe.