TOKYO, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) — Japanese prosecutors arrested a former operations government of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee and three others on Wednesday over bid-rigging accusations, native media reported.
Tokyo prosecutors arrested the previous senior official, Yasuo Mori, on suspicion of being a key participant within the anti-monopoly legislation breach of getting ready video games check occasions, operating the Summer Games competitions, and rigging bids for contracts.
The contracted quantity to run the pre-games and competitions on the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2021 totaled round 303 million U.S. {dollars}, Kyodo News reported.
The different three arrested are Koji Hemmi, a former government at Japanese advert large Dentsu Inc., and officers Yoshiji Kamata and Masahiko Fujino from occasion manufacturing corporations Cerespo Co. and Fuji Creative Corp., respectively, each companies that received contracts to plan check occasions.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike instructed the press that Mori’s arrest was “extremely regrettable,” in accordance with native reviews.
In the bribery scandal, Haruyuki Takahashi, a former official on the organizing committee, has been charged 4 instances with accepting bribes totaling over 198 million yen (about 1.5 million U.S. {dollars}) in alternate for aiding companies in being chosen as sponsors or advertising brokers of the most important occasion.
Prosecutors claimed that Takahashi, who was additionally a former senior managing director at Dentsu, had affect over the committee’s advertising division, which was in command of selecting sponsors.