Panel says no cover-up in Japan's Mizuho mob loans scandal

TOKYO (Reuters) - Mizuho Financial Group did not intentionally cover-up loans to "yakuza" mobsters, an outside panel said on Monday, a verdict that increases the likelihood Japan's second-biggest bank by assets will escape serious penalty over the scandal.

from Reuters: Business News http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/businessNews/~3/qlCElpJohJA/story01.htm