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A senior official with the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee and three company executives were arrested Wednesday in an ongoing bid-rigging scandal related to the Games.
Yasuo Mori, the Olympic official, was arrested along with Koji Henmi, who headed the sports division at Japanese advertising giant Dentsu. Two other business executives were also arrested on charges of violating anti-monopoly laws, the Tokyo District Prosecutors said in a statement.
Prosecutors have also been investigating a separate bribery scandal centred around former Dentsu executive Haruyuki Takahashi, who was a member of the organizing committee.
The bid-rigging probe in general involves the choice of venues for Olympic test events as well as for the actual Games. It is a joint operation of the Japan Fair Trade Commission, which looks at violations of anti-monopoly laws.
Prosecutors said the officials secretly agreed on the bids in 2018.
Some of the contracts had only one bidder, according to Japanese media reports. Prosecutors say the bid-rigging scandal arrests have just begun and could embroil more companies.
Upon conviction of violation of anti-monopoly laws, individuals can be sentenced to up to five years in prison.
The sprawling corruption allegations surrounding Tokyo have caused the bid by the northern Japanese city of Sapporo for the 2030 Winter Games to be placed "on hold." Sapporo was considered the favourite before the scandal.
Salt Lake City is the only other known bidder that might consider taking 2030. Salt Lake officials have said they favour a bid for 2034.
The Tokyo Games were postponed for a year and held in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The official price tag is US$13 billion, though a government audit suggests it might be twice that much.
Takahashi and officials at several other companies were earlier arrested in the bribery scandal. Plans for those trials are beginning. Takahashi was released on bail after being held for several months.
Among the companies embroiled in the scandal involving Takahashi are Aoki Holdings, a clothing company that dressed Japan's Olympic team; Sun Arrow, which produced the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic mascots named Miraitowa and Someity; and Kadokawa Group, the publisher of the Games program and guidebooks.
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