The president of the Dentsu Group, a major advertising company, was arbitrarily questioned by the Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office in a bid-rigging case involving the operation of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, and admitted responsibility as a corporation for its involvement in the bid-rigging. I found out by interviewing people.
The Fair Trade Commission is making final adjustments to file criminal charges against six companies, including Dentsu and Hakuhodo, on suspicion of violating the Antimonopoly Act.
Yasuo Mori, 56, 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.
Dentsu is suspected of leading the collusion, including creating a list of companies to receive orders for each competition together with the organizing committee from around July 2017, the year before the bidding, but Hiroshi Igarashi of the Dentsu Group Interviews with people involved revealed that the president was voluntarily interviewed by the Special Investigation Department by the 24th and admitted responsibility as a corporation for his involvement in the bid rigging.
In addition to Dentsu, the Fair Trade Commission is making final adjustments to criminally indict six companies, including advertising giants Hakuhodo, Tokyu Agency, and event production companies Cerespo, Fuji Creative Corporation, and Same Two, on suspicion of violating the Antimonopoly Act. It seems that the special investigation department is proceeding with the final investigation to pursue the criminal responsibility of the former deputy director and the six companies as corporations.