Suspected bid-rigging over the Tokyo Olympics ADK voluntarily declared violations to the Fair Trade Commission (November 22, 2022)

It turns out that advertising giant “ADK” voluntarily reported violations to the Fair Trade Commission in suspicion of collusion over the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic test competitions. It is known that there was a possibility that bids for the test competition of the competition ordered by the organizing committee in 2018 and ordered by Dentsu and ADK (then Asatsudakei) were carried out. After that, I learned that ADK had reported to the Fair Trade Commission that “there was an order adjustment in advance.” It is said that it used a system in which the surcharge was reduced or exempted if the violation was voluntarily reported. ADK won 3 out of 26 competitive bids for the test competition, with a total contract amount of over 100 million yen. ADK Holdings commented, ‘I will refrain from answering.’
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