Japan's Panasonic and South Korea's Samsung Electronics have each decided to propose capital ties with disgraced medical equipment maker Olympus, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Other firms are already jostling to partner with Olympus, which has a 70 percent share of the global market for diagnostic endoscopes. Fujifilm has proposed an alliance while medical equipment maker Terumo has said it wants to strengthen ties.

Electronics giant Sony is also interested, sources have said.