It turned out that a former director of the Organizing Committee had consulted with AOKI that “If you pay 750 million yen, you can become an official sponsor.” It is estimated that 200 million yen of this amount has passed to the company of the former director. A residential area in Tokyo. Haruyuki Takahashi (78), a former director of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is believed to be on board one of several foreign cars. Regarding former director Takahashi, it became clear that AOKI had newly paid “about 200 million yen”. What kind of money is it? In 2017, former director Takahashi signed a consultant contract with AOKI for his own company, and AOKI later became a sponsor of the tournament. The former director’s company is believed to have received about 45 million yen. The newly discovered “gold” is different from this. According to interviews with related parties, it is estimated that about 200 million yen was passed from the AOKI side to the company of the former director through “Dentsu’s subsidiary”. This money was originally paid in the name of “Olympic strengthening expenses”, and it seems that some of it went to two federations. Regarding this, former Chairman Aoki (83) … Former Chairman Hironori Aoki of AOKI Holdings (in response to a voluntary hearing by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office): “I was told that the money would be donated to two sports organizations,” said former director Takahashi. According to the people concerned, in 2017, he consulted with former Chairman Aoki as follows. Former Director of the Organizing Committee, Haruyuki Takahashi: “If you pay 750 million yen, you can become an official sponsor of the Olympic Games.” The AOKI side paid “500 million yen” to “Dentsu” as “sponsor fee” the following year. The remaining 250 million yen seems to have been the “Olympic strengthening expenses” mentioned earlier. According to a person familiar with the matter, former director Takahashi was very influential because he had a “personal relationship with Chairman Bach that he could call directly.” When the “45 million yen problem” emerged, the former director told the program that he was interviewing. Haruyuki Takahashi, Former Director of the Organizing Committee: “I haven’t worked on the Olympics on the AOKI side. I was working with my own personality so that I wouldn’t have a favor.” It seems that they are proceeding with the investigation, considering that there was an “intention to expect product sales” due to the selection of sponsors in the provision of money.
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