Kadokawa chairman’s house also searched for Tokyo Olympics corruption scandal

On the 6th, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s Special Investigation Department responded to the defendant Haruyuki Takahashi (78), a former director of the Organizing Committee of the Games, indicted on bribery charges in return for favors in selecting sponsors in a corruption case surrounding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Kadokawa head office in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, and Chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa’s home in Shinjuku Ward were searched on suspicion that he had paid a bribe of about 70 million yen (about $70,000) to him. .[Photographed from head office helicopter, Natsuo Nishi, Toshiki Miyama]Related articles published on September 6, 2022 → https://mainichi.jp/articles/20220906/k00/00m/040/134000c