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Suzuki chairman will step down as CEO over false fuel-economy tests

Osamu Suzuki will give up CEO role. (Reuters)
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By:
Naomi Tajitsu
June 08, 2016 05:00 AM

TOKYO -- Suzuki Motor Corp. CEO and Chairman Osamu Suzuki will step down as CEO, the Japanese automaker said today, after the company revealed last month that it had used false fuel-economy tests.

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