diff --git a/docs/releasenotes.html b/docs/releasenotes.html
index 35d73b063..37c2786ae 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes.html
+++ b/docs/releasenotes.html
@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@
         all previous versions of the configuration DTD locally, without
         accessing the internet (bug 909987).</li>
 
+        <li class="body">Fixed handling of imports for inner classes
+        in RedundantThrows (bug 925263)</li> 
+
       </ul>
 
       <p class="body">
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/ClassResolver.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/ClassResolver.java
index 161191c84..4e2ff8f67 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/ClassResolver.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/ClassResolver.java
@@ -74,8 +74,20 @@ public class ClassResolver
         Iterator it = mImports.iterator();
         while (it.hasNext()) {
             final String imp = (String) it.next();
-            if (imp.endsWith(aName) && isLoadable(imp)) {
-                return safeLoad(imp);
+            if (imp.endsWith(aName)) {
+                if (isLoadable(imp)) {
+                    return safeLoad(imp);
+                }
+                // perhaps this is a import for inner class
+                // let's try load it.
+                int dot = imp.lastIndexOf(".");
+                if (dot != -1) {
+                    final String innerName = imp.substring(0, dot) + "$"
+                        + imp.substring(dot + 1);
+                    if (isLoadable(innerName)) {
+                        return safeLoad(innerName);
+                    }
+                }
             }
         }