This morning, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and the Japan Fair Trade Commission launched a compulsory investigation into Dentsu, a major advertising company, on suspicion of collusion during the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics test competition. Just four months after Dentsu’s house was raided in July of this year as a party involved in the Olympics corruption scandal, this time it was again compulsorily investigated by the Special Investigation Department on suspicion of being involved in bid-rigging. The Special Investigation Department and the Fair Trade Commission are jointly investigating Dentsu and Toshima Ward’s event company Cerespo. The two companies are suspected of violating antitrust laws by colluding in a bid for an Olympic “test event” ordered by the Games Organizing Committee, according to people familiar with the matter. In the test competition, 26 bids were made, 9 companies and 1 organization won the bid, and staff from Dentsu and others on the order receiving side were seconded to the organizing committee of the competition on the ordering side. According to people involved, there is a suspicion that officials of the organizing committee were listening to the wishes of the companies in advance regarding the bidding, so the special investigation department and the Fair Trade Commission are expected to clarify the actual situation. ▼TBS NEWS DIG official website https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/ ▼Please subscribe to the channel! http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6AG81pAkf6Lbi_1VC5NmPA?sub_confirmation=1 ▼Provide information here “TBS Insiders” https://www.tbs.co.jp/news_sp/tbs-insiders.html ▼Provide video Click here for “TBS Scoop Post” https://www.tbs.co.jp/news_sp/toukou.html
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