TOKYO OLYMPICS CORRUPTION - PART 8

 Arrest of KADOKAWA Chairman Fumihiko Kadokawa on suspicion of bribery to former director of the Olympic Organizing Committee

In the corruption case surrounding the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Special Investigation Department said on the 14th that in return for facilitating the selection of a sponsor for the Games, former director of the Games Organizing Committee Haruyuki Takahashi (78) = re-arrested on suspicion of bribery = was accused of giving a total of about 69 million yen in bribes. Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) chairman, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, 79, was arrested on suspicion of bribery. Two of the company's advisers were arrested on the same charges on June 6, but the Special Investigation Department seems to have determined that Chairman Kadokawa led the request to the former board member to select a sponsor and pay a reward.

Chairman Kadokawa's arrest charges conspired with two suspects = arrested on bribery charges = Yoshihara Seyuki (Yoshihara Toshiyuki, 64 years old), who was the company's advisor and managing director in charge of the Olympics, and Kyoji Umaba (63), an employee and former head of the Olympics office, and asked the former director to make advantageous arrangements in the selection of sponsors, and in return September 2019 ~ January 21, It allegedly gave bribes totaling about 69 million yen on nine separate occasions. Chairman Kadokawa responded to a voluntary interview by the Special Investigation Department before his arrest.

TSUGUHIKO KADOKAWA - CHAIRMAN OF PUBLISHING GIANT KADOKAWA

"Publishing magnate" arrested 9 days after claiming innocence, KADOKAWA's surprise

Only 9 days after claiming "innocence". The corruption case surrounding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics led to the arrest of 79-year-old Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, chairman of the publishing giant KADOKAWA, by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Special Investigation Department on May 14. Was there any fraud in the line connecting the manager of Kiyo, who has changed the publishing world, and Haruyuki Takahashi (78), a former director of the organizing committee of the Games = re-arrested on suspicion of bribery = ? Surprise spread among those involved.

"[The investigation] is really unexpected, I'm confused," he said, "and I've never run it with a humble heart." Kadokawa spoke to media outlets on May 5 and completely denied the allegations that he had bribed the former board members. However, the arrest charges presented by the Special Investigation Department on the 14th included the exact opposite content: "He asked a former director to be selected as a sponsor and offered a bribe."

Chairman Kadokawa is the second son of Genyoshi Kadokawa, who founded Kadokawa Shoten, the predecessor of KADOKAWA, in November 1945, shortly after the war. He joined the company in '66, was involved in the founding of the information magazines "The Television" ('82) and "Tokyo Walker" ('90), and became vice president in '92. He left the company once due to a conflict with his brother, who was the president, but returned in 93 and became president at the age of 50. He is a publishing mogul who has also served as president of the Japan Magazine Association.

His hobby is shogi, and his strength is "the conceptual ability that shogi gave him". In the midst of the publishing recession, the company also focused on the digital content and game business, and in 2014 it integrated with Dwango, a major Internet video distribution company known for "Nico Nico Douga". He led the company toward its development into a "comprehensive media company." Even in recent years, when he retired as chairman without the right to represent the company, he was seen both inside and outside the company as having "absolute influence." The Special Investigation Department has been investigating the "KADOKAWA Route" since the beginning of the investigation.

KADOKAWA explains remittance in "president's" materials Former head of the Olympics office reports?

In the corruption case surrounding the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, suspect Tsuguhiko Kadokawa (79), chairman of the publishing giant "KADOKAWA" who was arrested on suspicion of bribery on the 14th, Haruyuki Takahashi (78), a former director of the organizing committee of the Games, = re-arrested on suspicion of bribery = It was found through interviews with related parties that internal materials were prepared to report the contents of remittances to the side. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Special Investigation Department is believed to have confiscated this material, and it seems that Kyoji Maniwa, 63, the head of the company's Olympics office at the time, reported to the chairman in advance based on this material that the remittance was intended as a reward for convenience.

Chairman Kadokawa's arrest charges are that he conspired with two suspects, Toshiyuki Yoshihara (64), who was an advisor to the company and senior managing director in charge of the Olympics, and former manager of the office Maba, an employee = both arrested on suspicion of bribery on the 6th = and asked the former director to make advantageous arrangements in the selection of sponsors, and in return, he gave a total of about 69 million yen in bribes in nine installments from September 2019 ~ January 21.