A former board member of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games is said to have accepted bribes. A total of four people have been arrested in Japan for this reason.
Haruyuki Takahashi Board member of the Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee.
(dpa) Former Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee board member Haruyuki Takahashi has been arrested on suspicion of corruption. As Japanese media reported on Wednesday, the public prosecutor suspects the 78-year-old former lobbyist of having received bribes from the Japanese clothing group Aoki Holdings Inc. Takahashi is a former employee of the Japanese advertising agency Dentsu, which was the exclusive marketing agency for the Tokyo Olympics. The games, which were postponed by a year due to the corona pandemic, took place in the Japanese capital last year.