ISTANBUL – The scandal-hit Tokyo Olympics has seen extra improvement as one other businessman has “confessed” to rigging earlier than the worldwide occasion was held in Japan in 2021.
Hiroshi Igarashi, who’s president and CEO of Dentsu Group Inc., “has admitted to prosecutors the Japanese ad giant’s involvement in rigging bids over the Tokyo Olympics,” unnamed sources advised Kyodo News on Monday.
During questioning final Friday, Igarashi has “voluntarily” admitted to “rigging bids over contracts to plan and run pre-games test events and operate competitions during the Summer Games in 2021.”
The public prosecutors are actually mulling to indict Dentsu and “five other companies on charges of violating the anti-monopoly law as early as Tuesday after receiving complaints by the Japan Fair Trade Commission.”
Several others, together with Koji Hemmi, a former Dentsu government, have been arrested thus far.
Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, who was a senior official of the now-defunct Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, has additionally been arrested over suspicion of receiving bribes of round 51 million yen (USD380,000) from main enterprise swimsuit retailer Aoki Holdings, one of many sponsors of final 12 months’s summer season video games.
He is believed to have taken bribes “on more than 50 occasions between October 2017 and March this year.”
Takahashi, nevertheless, has denied any wrongdoing.
He is accused of serving to Hironori Aoki, a former chairman of Aoki Holdings, in getting “preferential treatment in the process of selecting sponsors.”
Aoki has additionally been arrested, together with two different folks. (Anadolu)