Former Director of the Olympic Organizing Committee “Searching for a house” on suspicion of “consignment bribery” (July 27, 2022)

On the 26th, in the rain, the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, former director Haruyuki Takahashi, was searched by the Tokyo Organizing Committee for Special Investigation. The allegation is “consignment bribery”. According to the people concerned, the company represented by former director Takahashi has signed a consultant contract with AOKI Holdings, a major men’s clothing company that sponsored the tournament, and is believed to have received a total of approximately 45 million yen. Former Director Takahashi was a former managing director of the major advertising company Dentsu, and Dentsu was involved in the selection of tournament sponsors as an appointing agency for the Organizing Committee. “He hasn’t worked on the Olympics,” Takahashi told the interview. (From “Good! Morning” broadcast on July 27, 2022)
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