The sanctions fall, in Japan, in the corruption affair linked to the Tokyo 2020 Games. They are heavy. The former president of Aoki Holdings, one of the many partners of the last summer Olympic meeting, was sentenced this Friday, April 21 to 30 months in prison. He is the first to be convicted in the long series opened last year by Japanese justice. Probably not the last. Hironori Aoki (pictured above), now 84, was found guilty by the Tokyo District Court of paying bribes to insure his former company, a chain of stores costumes, a place among the list of partners for the Tokyo 2020 Games. The prosecution had requested 30 months in prison. The court opted for leniency by handing down a suspended sentence. As a reminder, Hironori Aoki was arrested last August, along with two of his former collaborators. He was then suspected of having paid the equivalent of 320.000 euros in bribes to Haruyuki Takahashi, the former boss of the Dentsu group and member of the Tokyo 2020 board of directors.
