The arrests逮捕 are the latest step in investigations by the Japanese authorities into one of the country's biggest corporate企業 scandals.
The former chairman of Olympus Tsuyoshi Kikukawa is being held under suspicion懷疑 of violating違反 the Financial Instruments and Exchange law.
The company's former executive vice president副總裁 and its former auditor檢查員 have also been arrested.
An independent panel set up by Olympus blamed the men for orchestrating編排 the cover-up of more than $1.5 billion in investment losses.
The company has lost nearly half its value since the scandal became public last October.
Olympus is suing 19 current and former executives管理人.
And there's speculation推測 it may need to merge or form new alliances聯盟 with its rivals競爭對手 to rebuild its battered焦頭爛額 balance sheets資產負債表
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