Olympic rigging case Dentsu advises organizing committee's support team to create specifications

In the bid-rigging case in which the former deputy director of the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics and former executives of advertising giant Dentsu were arrested, Dentsu established a team within the company to support the organizing committee's ordering operations. Through interviews with related parties, it was newly found that they advised on how to raise the price and how to create bidding specifications.

The Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office believes that Dentsu, which was also participating in the bidding, and the organization committee of the orderer worked together to manage the bidding process, and are apparently investigating the actual situation.

Yasuo Mori, 55, former deputy director of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee's tournament management department, and Koji Hemi, 55, a former Dentsu executive and managing director of the sports business department, and others4. The person was arrested in Tokyo on suspicion of violating the Anti-Monopoly Act, alleging that he had conducted fraudulent order coordination for a project with a total scale of 40 billion yen, including bidding for planning work for test competitions for each sport and operation work for the main competition. Arrested by the District Attorney's Office.

According to people involved, Dentsu is suspected of having investigated the performance of each company in cooperation with Deputy Director Morimoto and others, and created a list that assigns companies to receive orders for each competition. Around the fall of 2017, the year before the bid was made, a team was set up within the company to support the organizing committee's ordering work at the request of the former deputy director. That's it.

In addition, it was newly discovered that this team was also suspected of providing advice to the Organizing Committee on how to create a "specification" that indicates the details and conditions of the work to the contractor when the orderer bids. .

Dentsu itself participated in the bidding and received some orders, and the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office believes that the bidding side and the ordering side worked together to complete the bidding work, and are investigating the actual situation. It seems.