The Japan Badminton Association held a press conference on the 21st in response to a series of scandals such as embezzlement by a former employee, and announced that the president, Yoshio Sekine, apologized and that the managing director and others involved were severely reprimanded. Did.

It means that no director will resign after a series of scandals.

The Nippon Badminton Association held a press conference in Tokyo on the 21st, and announced the outline of the third-party committee's investigation report on a series of scandals, including the embezzlement of a former employee.



According to the investigative report, about 6.8 million yen was misappropriated by a former staff member, including training camp expenses for the Japanese national team. In addition to being pointed out, the executive director and others did not instruct the JOC = Japan Olympic Committee to correct the mistake about the fraudulent application for a national subsidy of about 230,000 yen, and the administrator lacked the qualifications. and the weakness of the secretariat system were pointed out.



In addition, there is a deep-seated cover-up, such as behavior that lacks social common sense, such as remarks that justify inappropriate responses by related parties, and failure to promptly report to the board of directors. was raised as a problem facing the association.

Chairman Sekine apologized, "I am very sorry that the officers cannot manage and supervise. I apologize from the bottom of my heart." was made a disposition of caution.



At the same time, we announced measures to prevent recurrence, such as introducing an approval process by multiple executives when making payments.



In response to the series of scandals, no board member resigned, and Chairman Sekine said, "Rather than the executives resigning now, the executives who understand well have to fix the organization. And I hope so."



In addition, regarding the 20% reduction in training costs from the country next year, he indicated that he would cut other budgets within the association and not reduce the budget for player training.



We are planning to explain the progress so far to the representatives of each team within the next week.