The former deputy director of the organizing committee and others were arrested on the 8th regarding bidding for work related to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics test competitions. Interviews with people involved revealed that the list had been updated more than 10 times in the month just before bidding began.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's Special Investigation Department is believed to be investigating the circumstances, assuming that the former deputy director was coordinating the intentions of each company until just before the bidding to avoid any business that ended in failure.
Yasuo Mori, 55, former deputy director of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee's tournament management department, and Koji Hemi, 55, a former executive of Dentsu who served as managing director of the sports business department, etc. On the 8th, the person violated the Anti-Monopoly Act, alleging that he had conducted illegal order coordination for a business with a total scale of 40 billion yen, such as bidding for planning work for test competitions for each sport and operation work for the main competition. was arrested by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of
The former deputy director and Dentsu have been preparing a list of companies expected to participate in the bidding process and the performance of each competition since the autumn of 2017, the year before the bidding for the planning work for the test tournament was held. I know, but interviews with people involved revealed that the list was updated more than 10 times in the month just before bidding began in April 2018.
Deputy Director Morimoto and others are believed to have communicated the contents of the list to the contractors, and the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office coordinated the intentions of each company until the last minute in order to avoid a competition in which the former Deputy Director ended the bidding unsuccessfully. It seems that they are investigating the circumstances.