China News Agency, Tokyo, August 17 (Reporter Zhu Chenxi) According to a report by Japan Broadcasting Association TV, former Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee Executive Committee member Takahashi Haruyuki was suspected of receiving huge bribes from Tokyo Olympic sponsoring companies. On the 17th, the Tokyo District Procuratorate agency arrest.
According to reports, 78-year-old Takahashi Haruyuki is suspected of receiving a total of 51 million yen in bribes from the Tokyo Olympics sponsor and suit giant AOKI Holdings.
Tokyo prosecutors arrested AOKI Holdings founder and former chairman Aoki Kokian and two other people related to the case on suspicion of bribery.
Tokyo prosecutors said that Aoki Kanken and others hoped to obtain favorable arrangements in terms of sponsorship contracts for the Tokyo Olympics and manufacturing and sales contracts for official licensed products.
Haruyuki Takahashi accepted his entrustment and received 51 million yen in bribes from AOKI Holdings from October 2017 to March 2022 and transferred it to an account in a company under his name.
The report quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that Takahashi Haruyuki’s company signed a consulting contract with the asset management company of Aoki Kuanxian and others in September 2017, and then in 2018, AOKI Holdings became a sponsor of the Tokyo Olympics, and won Authorization to sell officially licensed products.
According to reports, Takahashi Haruyuki is suspected of introducing AOKI Holdings as a candidate sponsor to the executives of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee. Aoki Kuxian and others are also suspected of submitting a document to Takahashi Haruyuki, requesting to speed up the approval of licensed products. .
The report quoted relevant sources as saying that Haruyuki Takahashi denied the questioning of Tokyo prosecutors before his arrest, claiming that the payments he received were legitimate and legal remuneration.
However, Aoki Kuanxian once confessed to the prosecution that he had expected Takahashi Zhizhi to play a role as a network.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on the same day that she was very sorry for the incident.
It is reported that Haruyuki Takahashi was one of the 25 executive committee members of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee. He was the senior managing director of Dentsu, Japan's largest advertising company, and played an important role in Tokyo's acquisition of the right to host the Olympic Games.
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