A former director of the Tokyo Olympics arrested for alleged corruption

Aug. 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –

A former director of the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics, Hauryuki Takahashi, has been arrested on suspicion that he received sonorous from a clothing firm, the Prosecutor’s Office announced on Wednesday, which has also arrested three other people.

Takahashi would have entered 51 million yen (about 370,000 euros) from the company of Aoki Holdings, a suit company with which the organizers signed a sponsorship contract. According to investigators, he received bribes more than 50 times between October 2017 and March 2022.

Among the detainees is also a former head of the textile company, Hironori Aoki, who along with other people interceded with Takahashi so that the firm received preferential treatment in the process of choosing sponsors for the sporting event.

The former member of the organizing committee, who had also been part of the advertising company Dentsu, has acknowledged that he received money, although he has denied the corrupt practices attributed to him by the Prosecutor’s Office, according to sources cited by the Kiodo news agency. The authorities had already registered at the end of July the house of the now detainee.