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TOKYO – Japan's truthful commerce watchdog mentioned Thursday that Nissan Motor violated the Subcontractor Act by underpaying dozens of suppliers a complete of about 3 billion yen ($20.26 million).
The Japan Truthful Commerce Fee, which native media reported this week was investigating Nissan's conduct, mentioned the automaker had illegally deducted quantities from 36 suppliers over an almost two-year interval from January 2021 .
It additionally known as on Nissan to arrange a administration system to take care of subcontractor funds and for the board of administrators to move a decision to acknowledge the problem and stop it from occurring once more.
Nissan, Japan's third-largest automaker by quantity, mentioned it had totally refunded suppliers the cash it had unilaterally deducted, mentioned it took the watchdog's announcement very significantly and would strengthen its inspection system.
Japan's subcontractor regulation prohibits the ordering get together from unilaterally decreasing funds via no fault of the subcontractor.