The Japanese flag and Olympic rings are seen at the Japan Olympic Museum near the National Stadium in Tokyo onFeb 17,2023 Authorities are carrying out examinations into supposed corruption in the preparation and sponsorship of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Games.
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Japan’s Fair Trade Commission stated on Tuesday it submitted criminal problems versus Dentsu and 5 other companies along with 7 people over supposed bid-rigging on agreements for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The grievance marks the current advancement in months of examinations into supposed corruption in the preparation and sponsorship of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics Games, kept in 2021 after a pandemic-driven post ponement.
“We determined that this is a malicious and serious case that will have a broad impact on people’s lives,” FTC private investigator Goh Okumura informed a media instruction.
The other business called in the grievance are Hakuhodo DY Holdings, Tokyu Agency, Fuji Creative Corporation, Cerespo and Same Two, the FTC stated.
All 6 business had no instant remark when gotten in touch with byReuters Tokyo district attorneys are preparing to the bring the charges on Tuesday, Kyodo News company stated.
Prosecutors this month jailed a previous Tokyo Olympics arranging committee authorities and executives at Dentsu and others over the case, in which the companies were presumed of conspiring in 2018 to rig the quotes for the Games’ test occasions.
Dentsu, Cerespo and Fuji Creative have actually currently been disallowed from bidding for agreements at the market, foreign and education ministries for 9 months.
The bid-rigging case follows a bribery scandal, in which Haruyuki Takahashi, a previous member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics board and prior to that a Dentsu executive, was jailed in 2015 on suspicion of getting allurements from Olympic sponsors.
Executives from marketing company ADK Holdings, service matches seller Aoki Holdings and publishing company Kadokawa have actually likewise been jailed in connection with the bribery case.
