TOKYO (AP) Bribery allegations against a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member widened Tuesday as Japanese prosecutors “re-arrested” Haruyuki Takahashi in a case involving suspected payments from a publisher which became a sponsor for the Games.
Tokyo prosecutors rearrested a former Olympics organizing committee executive who now faces more bribery charges, and also brought in an acquaintance of his who works at a consultancy and officials from a major publisher.
Bribery allegations against a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member are widening as Japanese prosecutors “re-arrested” Haruyuki Takahashi in a case involving suspected payments from a publisher which became a sponsor for the Games
Tokyo, Sep 6 (EFE).- Japanese authorities extended Tuesday the detention of a former executive of the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and arrested three other people related to a bribery network, in a scandal that is shaking the sporting event. Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, member of the event’s organizing committee directors board held in …
The bribery scandal involving a former Tokyo Olympics executive widened further on Sept. 5 when the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office raided the headquarters of Daiko Advertising Inc.