Chinanews.com, December 23, according to Kyodo News, Japan, surrounding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics related malfeasance cases, was suspected of providing a total of 28 million yen to the sponsors entrusted by the former director of the Olympic Organizing Committee Haruyuki Takahashi. Aoki Hiroken, the former chairman of menswear giant AOKI Holdings, who was charged with bribery, admitted the content of the prosecution in the first public trial of the Tokyo District Court on the 22nd.

  The Special Search Department of the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office has prosecuted 15 people through 5 channels. This is the first trial in a series of cases.

  The remaining two are the former vice chairman of AOKI Holdings and the younger brother of Aoki Hirohisa, and Ueda Yuhisa who is the executive director.

  According to the indictment, from January 2017 to around June last year, the three entrusted Takahashi to be selected as an Olympic sponsor and signed a contract quickly. The contract included matters such as the priority supply of official clothing for the Japanese Olympic delegation. Cash was provided to Takahashi more than 30 times from September to March this year.

  Takahashi is a former managing director of advertising giant Dentsu.

In June 2014, he served as a director of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee and was regarded as a "quasi-civil servant" in accordance with the "Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Special Measures Law".

  The Special Search Department believes that AOKI Holdings provided funds in September 2017 in accordance with the consulting contract signed with "COMMONS" operated by Takahashi as bribery.