Japan's biggest advertising agency and five other companies were indicted on Tuesday for allegedly violating an anti-monopoly law, in a corruption scandal over bid-rigging during the Tokyo Olympics. The indictment followed the arrest this month of a senior Tokyo 2020 organizing committee official and three others who were accused of rigging a string of Olympic…
Japan, Dentsu, Hakuhodo, ADK and two other firms and seven individuals stand indicted over suspected rigging of bids worth $320 million for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics
Prosecutors on Feb. 28 handed out a spate of indictments after the Fair Trade Commission issued criminal complaints earlier the same day against Japan’s two largest advertising agencies for rigging bids for Tokyo Olympic pre-events.