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- Aug. 26, 1991: Business Notes:Scandal
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 26, 1991 Science Under Siege
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- BUSINESS, Page 42
- Business Notes
- SCANDAL
- Well, She Had An Honest Face
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- <p> In a season of scandal among Japan's largest financial firms,
- an eccentric restaurateur from Osaka has managed to steal the
- show. Nui Onoue, 61, who claims she began playing the stock market
- in response to a "divine message," was accused last week of using
- forged certificates worth $2.5 billion to obtain loans from a
- host of banks and financial companies. Among the duped lenders
- was the prestigious Industrial Bank of Japan. By last October,
- Onoue had built up her portfolio to an estimated value of nearly
- $780 million and ranked as one of Japan's largest individual
- investors. But prosecutors speculate that the 39% plunge in
- Tokyo share prices last year forced Onoue to make a desperate
- move to cover her losses.
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