Regarding the apps used at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, Minister Hirai has announced that he will set up a team centered on outside lawyers to verify the process of ordering.

Regarding the apps used at the Tokyo Games, the minister in charge of digital reform Hirai said that he should threaten the business operator that undertook the development, and received entertainment from the president of NTT after taking office last year. After that, it was reported that a subsidiary of NTT received an order for the application development business.



At a press conference after the Cabinet meeting, Minister Hirai said, "If the public is skeptical that the procurement was not appropriate after receiving a series of reports, it needs to be verified. Externally. Even if it is legal, we will investigate whether it was appropriate, "he said, and announced that he would set up a team centered on outside lawyers to verify the process of ordering.



On top of that, "In order to make the procurement process completely transparent, I would like to ask an outside expert to check all the audio data and the situation of the dinner. I would like to make use of it in the procurement rules of the Digital Agency to be established. ".