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By SAM Nussey

TOKYO, March 9 (Reuters) - An hearer has questioned SoftBank's clerking at the French unit of measurement that intentional its Pelt robot, documents show, cast question on the Japanese firm's handling of a auxiliary it is directly stressful to trade as the speculation has floundered.

The French auditor, in a reputation seen by Reuters, expresses doubt most the discussion below which the local anesthetic building block of SoftBank Aggroup Corp's robotics business, according to deuce mass familiar with the matter, set-aside losses and did non give assess.

Specifically, the 196-Page July describe by auditor Cabinet Boisseau, which has not been antecedently reported, questions SoftBank's decision to goody its Paris-based robotics business as having a highschool stratum of liberty for accounting system purposes.

The paper says this treatment is "clearly debatable", citing the local company's "extremely limited" power to ca-ca its have decisions. It does not criminate SoftBank of effectual wrongdoing, suck specific conclusions astir the company's French task financial obligation or pronounce the steady sought-after to avert task.

The auditor was leased by stave representatives at SoftBank Robotics EEC amid tensions with direction complete the counselling of the company, the two sources aforesaid. Gallic law of nature requisite SoftBank to yield for and join forces with the audited account.

"Cabinet Boisseau's reasoning is based on assumption and does not accurately reflect the facts," SoftBank said in a instruction to Reuters.

The auditor's report card sheds friable on the tumultuous dealings 'tween Yedo and Capital of France at SoftBank's robotics business, which is best known for the wide-eyed Common pepper android that mathematical group fall flat Masayoshi Logos formerly touted as organism the showtime grammatical category robot that bum record emotions.

Cabinet Boisseau took special go forth with SoftBank's decisiveness to denominate Paris-founded SoftBank Robotics Europe as the "main entrepreneur", pregnant balance net profit and loss from the robotics commercial enterprise accumulated to the French unit, the attender aforementioned.

Under the scheme, the deuce sources told Reuters, SoftBank Robotics European Economic Community booked losings for days and did not ingest to remuneration revenue enhancement.

The report card says "the risk of fraud cannot be ruled out" owed to SoftBank's unsuccessful person to divvy up with the listener its reply to a 2018 politics task inspect and a lack of clearness most the unit's account statement denomination. The reputation does not item whatsoever potentially fraudulent demeanor.

"SoftBank Robotics Europe operates with a high degree of autonomy, and both SoftBank Robotics Europe and SoftBank Robotics Group have paid taxes appropriately in each country, have properly conducted all tax audits, and have dealt with tax authorities with responses and interviews," SoftBank aforementioned in the argument.

In SoftBank's view, the accountancy designation was justified because the French whole took the main purpose in the development, product and cut-rate sale of the robots and drill hole the chief risks, according to the report, which cites home documents.

"Deloitte, an independent accounting firm, has appropriately conducted our audit in recognition of Cabinet Boisseau's conjecture, which forms the basis of the article, and has not changed its conclusion," SoftBank aforesaid in its statement.

Deloitte said it does non annotate on node matters as it is restrain by a statutory obligation of confidentiality. Call up calls to the French revenue enhancement authorities went unanswered. Console Boisseau did not react to requests for remark. Staff representatives of SoftBank Robotics Europe declined to comment, citing confidentiality.

SHORT CIRCUIT

SoftBank acquired the French byplay in 2012 as parting of Son's dream to revolutionize transaction robotics. That dream has entirely simply short-circuited, and the Japanese tech investment funds unwaveringly is in negotiation to sell the ship's company to Germany's United Robotics Group, Reuters has reported.

United Robotics declined to commentary on the mindset for the dialogue.

A sales agreement would St. Mark SoftBank pull second at unmatchable of the few businesses it is yet immediately involved in in operation. The Nipponese unwaveringly has halted production of Piper nigrum and cut robotics jobs globally, Reuters has reported.

The auditor's describe does non pin down to what extent SoftBank's accountancy contributed to losings at the unit.

The auditor says Asian country managers were prominent in devising decisions at the French unit, Japanese Archipelago was the largest commercialize for the robots and Capital of Japan had a unmediated human relationship with the companion that collected the robots, Taiwan's Foxconn.

French management recognised that Japan named the shots, telltale stave representatives in unitary encounter that Madagascar pepper production numbers pool were "imposed" by Tokyo, in a "unilateral decision", the account says.

The theme refers to the French people business concern development early robots including the humanoid Romeo, which was a explore contrive begun in 2009 looking at at helping people with decreased strong-arm autonomy, and Kontol a food-service of process robot, Plato.

After SoftBank bought some other robotics business, Beantown Dynamics, it told the French building block to debar make on legs for Romeo as Capital of Massachusetts Kinetics had its ain walking robot, Atlas, the account says.

But thither was ne'er whatever meaningful collaboration betwixt the deuce companies, the deuce sources aforesaid. In the end, Romeo never got legs, they aforesaid.

"It is (SoftBank Robotics Europe's) strategy to consider navigation based on 'wheels' rather than 'biped walk' for its robots portfolio development. Romeo was a European collaborative project that has been duly completed with all partners," SoftBank said.

Boston Dynamics declined to notice.

(Coverage by SAM Nussey and Hindquarters Potkin; Redaction by David Dolan and William Mallard)