THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 8, 2023 at 17:28 JST
Investigators with the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Yasuo Mori, former deputy executive director of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee’s operations bureau, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 8. (Takeshi Iwashita)
Tokyo prosecutors on Feb. 8 arrested four people, including a former executive of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics organizing committee and a former sports official at advertising giant Dentsu Inc., after a months-long investigation into suspicions they played a leading role in bid-rigging for contracts related to Games’ test events. [Read More]
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