Agencies/New Delhi


Private security guards stand at the entrance of the Icon Towers where Japanese national Tsutomu Omori was found dead in Gurgaon, some 30km from New Delhi yesterday
A top executive of Japan’s scandal-ridden Olympus Corporation was found dead outside his apartment in a New Delhi suburb in what seemed to be a suicide, police said yesterday.
Tsutomu Omori, 49, was found hanging from the boundary rails of a children’s park in a luxury apartment complex, said Amarjeet Singh, a police officer of the Gurgaon suburb.
Singh said apparent suicide notes in Japanese were found on the body. Three of them were addressed to Omori’s wife, father and two sons, respectively, while another simply said, “I am sorry for bothering you.”
Omori was managing director of Olympus Medical Systems India Private Ltd, a subsidiary of the Japanese camera and medical equipment company.
“The Japanese embassy has been contacted and the body has been sent for postmortem,” Singh said.
There was no immediate suggestion his death was linked to a $1.7bn fraud that has rocked corporate Japan and led to the arrest of senior executives in Tokyo.
“At this stage of probe, it looks like he committed suicide. One of his company executives told us he was depressed for the last two weeks,” Singh said, adding that the Japanese embassy was informed of the death on Monday.
An official at the Japanese embassy said the mission was aware of the ongoing probe.
“The police told us on February 20 that a Japanese national’s body was found in a park outside his apartment. The cause of the death is being investigated by Indian authorities,” the diplomat said.
Earlier this month, Tokyo police arrested seven top executives of Olympus Corporation for their alleged involvement in the accounting fraud, one of Japan’s biggest corporate scandals in recent times.