TOKYO (AP) - Troubled Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. faced a new scandal Thursday as national media reported seven former executives were arrested on suspicion they falsified a report over a fatal accident in which a wheel flew off one of its trucks.
Police raided the Tokyo headquarters of Mitsubishi's truckmaking affiliate, Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp., earlier in the day in connection with the case.The truckmaker said it was cooperating with the investigation but declined to elaborate.