Company executives have been accused of hiding $1.7 billion of losses from Olympus' balance sheet

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Company executives have been accused of hiding $1.7 billion of losses from Olympus' balance sheet

Yoshikazu Tsuno

Customers look at Olympus digital cameras at a shop in Tokyo in December 2011. Japanese prosecutors said Wednesday they had charged scandal-hit Olympus and three former senior executives over a huge loss cover-up.