The series continues. A new manager of a Japanese company partner of the Tokyo 2020 Games was indicted on Tuesday October 4 in connection with the corruption scandal linked to the last Summer Games. Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, 79, son of the founder and president of a publishing house in his name, is accused of having paid 69 million yen in bribes ($480.000) to a former board member. Tokyo 2020 administration, Haruyuki Takahashi. Tsuguhiko Kadokawa was arrested on September 14. In a statement released by his lawyers, the Japanese leader denies the accusations, but announces his decision to resign from his position as CEO of his publishing group. “ I have never been involved in corruption matters, he pleads. I want to reveal the truth during the trial and make it clear that I am innocent“. Investigators also charged two other company executives, Toshiyuki Yoshihara, 64, an advisor to Kadokawa, and Kyoji Maniwa, 63, in charge of activities related to the Tokyo Games. They are accused of complicity in the payment of bribes. According to the indictment, the three men paid a total of 69 million yen, between September 2019 and January 2021, to a consulting company run by Kazumasa Fukami, 73, a business partner of Haruyuki Takahashi, with whom he was a team at Dentsu. In exchange for this money, Haruyuki Takahashi would have used his influence with the organizing committee to ensure that the publishing house was chosen as a partner of the Tokyo Games, at a price significantly below the standards established by the Japanese organizers.
