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The name of that big name finally came out in the corruption scandal surrounding the Tokyo Olympics. Hironori Aoki, former chairman of AOKI Holdings, who was arrested on suspicion of bribery, testified that he handed over 2 million yen in cash to former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who was chairman of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. It was reported that
According to a scooped article in the Sankei Shimbun, Aoki met with Mori, who was chairman of the organizing committee, in July 2017 through Haruyuki Takahashi, a former managing director of Dentsu who was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes. . He is said to have had several dinners following that, but he reportedly handed the cash directly to former Prime Minister Mori in two separate occasions.
Aoki is said to have stated that it was a sympathy visit to Mr. Mori, who was undergoing cancer treatment. The directors and president of the Organizing Committee are stipulated as “deemed public servants,” and naturally former chairman Mori is suspected of accepting bribes or accepting bribes, just like Takahashi.
Moreover, according to Sankei, the AOKI side recorded the conversation at the meeting, and the special investigation unit has already seized it. Former Prime Minister Mori has said that he will refrain from answering because the investigation is ongoing, but there is a good chance that Mori will become the target of an investigation in the future.
However, it is not just the bribery related to AOKI that should be investigated. This is because there is a suspicion that former chairman Mori was involved in the acquisition of the bid for the Tokyo Olympics together with Takahashi.
In March 2020, Archyde.com reported that Mr. Takahashi, a director of the organizing committee, had received funds equivalent to regarding 890 million yen from the bid committee and had been lobbying IOC members. It was also reported that the bidding committee paid regarding 145 million yen to the Kano Jigoro Memorial International Sports Research and Exchange Center, which the chairman serves as representative director and chairman. In other words, there is a possibility that the bribery was carried out through the Jigoro Kano Foundation.
Moreover, this is not the only suspicion of involvement in a takeover involving the Jigoro Kano Foundation. According to the February 20, 2020 issue of “Weekly Shincho” (Shinchosha), Sega Sammy Holdings Chairman Osamu Satomi told executives of television stations and agencies in 2013 that former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who was then Chief Cabinet Secretary, said: Because he said he had received a request.
“We have to buy out Africans. We need 400 to 500 million yen in construction funds. Can you somehow prepare them? Only the chairman can prepare this much money.”
“There is the Kano Jigoro Foundation. If you transfer money there, the chairman will not be bothered. This foundation is a black box, so you can’t go anywhere. National taxes are absolutely fine.”
Furthermore, it is said that Chairman Satomi actually prepared 300 to 400 million yen by himself and 100 million yen by an “acquaintance’s president” and deposited it in the Jigoro Kano Foundation. I can help you,” he said.
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