TOKYO OLYMPICS CORRUPTION - PART 17

 Olympics corruption, "Keio network" in the background Former board member "Former JOC President Takeda's consolation"

It is said that Keio University alumni were deeply involved in the "Sun Arrow" route, a toy company involved in corruption cases surrounding the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, including Haruyuki Takahashi, 78, a former member of the organizing committee of the Games, who was rearrested on suspicion of bribery. A former board member of the university's affiliated high school alumni association may have used his "Keio network" to advance a plan to accept bribes related to the Olympics.

According to officials, the former director attended Keio's affiliated schools from elementary school to high school and graduated from the Department of Political Science of Keio University's Faculty of Law in 1967.

TSUNEKAZU TAKEDA - FORMER JAPANESE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE PRESIDENT

Bribes to former directors amounted to 5 routes, totaling about 200 million yen - ADK president and others arrested for Olympic corruption

In the corruption case surrounding the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Special Investigation Department arrested three people on suspicion of bribery, including Shinichi Ueno (68), president of the major advertising company "ADK Holdings" (Tokyo) and two former executives of the company, for bribing Haruyuki Takahashi (78) = charged with bribery = former director of the organizing committee of the Games. The former board member was also rearrested on suspicion of bribery. ADK had signed a sports marketing contract with a former board member, but the Special Investigation Department judged that a total of about 47 million yen, including part of the consulting fee, was a bribe.

This is the fourth time the former board member has been arrested. He was also rearrested on suspicion of bribery for allegedly accepting bribes totaling about 7 million yen from Sun Arrow (Tokyo), a toy company that sold stuffed toys for the tournament mascot. The case was divided from three routes to five routes: men's clothing giant "AOKI Holdings" (Yokohama City), publishing giant "KADOKAWA" (Tokyo), and advertising company "Ohiro" (Osaka City), and the total amount of bribes prosecuted was about 196 million yen. The Special Investigation Department searched the headquarters of ADK and Sun Arrow on the 19th.

Two former ADK executives were arrested: Shigeharu Hisamatsu (63), a former senior managing executive officer of ADK's predecessor Asatsu DK, and Toshiaki Tada (60), a former general manager of the company's Olympic and Paralympic Games. The former director of ADK Route is accused of receiving bribes totaling about 47 million yen from November 2017 ~ January this year in return for receiving a request from President Ueno and others to be selected as a subcontractor of Dentsu (Tokyo), a major advertising company that served as a full-time agent for the organizing committee to collect sponsors for the Olympics. The bribery side filed a lawsuit limited to a total of about 14 million yen for which the statute of limitations for bribery charges (3 years) has not been established.

The former director of Sun Arrowroot is accused of receiving a request from the former president of the company to smoothly conclude a license agreement that allows him to sell stuffed toys of the tournament mascot, and in return for the favor, he received a bribe totaling about 7 million yen from October '18 ~ April '21. The Special Investigation Department is expected to investigate the former president at home.

Of the approximately 47 million yen allegedly bribes from ADK, about 27 million yen was transferred to the consulting firm "Commons" of the former director, and the remaining about 20 million yen was sent to the consulting company (dissolved) where the former director's golf buddy was the president. The remittance of about 7 million yen from Sun Arrow is also sent to the same consulting company. The former board member denies both charges.

Olympics corruption, bribes close to 200 million yen for 5 routes. What are the three types of "rewards"?

The bribery charges against former Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee Director Haruyuki Takahashi have been filed through two new routes, ADK Holdings, a major advertising company, and Sun Arrow, a toy company, and the amount of bribes charged for five routes totaled nearly 200 million yen. The contents of the facilities allegedly made by the former director at the request of the company can be classified into three types: the selection of the tournament sponsor, the selection of the agency of the sponsor agreement, and the license agreement of the official product.

The former director was first arrested by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Special Investigation Division for accepting bribes totaling 51 million yen at AOKI Holdings, a major men's clothing company, for accepting bribes totaling 51 million yen after receiving a request from AOKI Holdings to facilitate the signing of a sponsorship agreement that included preferential supply rights for the "official attire" of the Japan athletes.