Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee government arrested in a bribery case involving a sponsorship contract for a garments retailer, can also have been requested to favor publishing firm Kadokawa Corp, a supply acquainted with the matter stated Saturday.
The publishing firm gave 70 million yen to an entity run by his acquaintance and prosecutors are wanting into why the cash was paid and whether or not all or a part of the quantity was transferred to anybody, the supply stated.
The sum given to the entity was described as a consulting payment after the writer grew to become a sponsor for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in April 2019, which enabled it to publish the Summer Games’ official guidebooks and data.
According to the supply, the acquaintance could have requested Takahashi to assist Kadokawa be chosen as a sponsor.
Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, the publishing firm’s chairman, advised Kyodo News in August that he didn’t know whether or not the corporate was being investigated by prosecutors.
Takahashi, 78, can be suspected of receiving bribes totaling round 51 million yen from the clothes retailer Aoki Holdings Inc., in alternate for preferential therapy within the strategy of choice as an Olympic sponsor.
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