The convictions follow one another and are similar, in Japan, in the corruption scandal linked to the Tokyo 2020 Games. The Tokyo District Court pronounced, Thursday, May 11, suspended prison sentences against two former senior executives of the advertising agency ADK Holdings. Hisamatsu Shigeharu and Tada Toshiakipour were found guilty of paying bribes, worth around $100.000, to former Dentsu Group boss and Tokyo 2020 board member Takahashi Haruyuki . The two men had asked him to use his influence to obtain partnership contracts for certain clients of the ADK agency. The court sentenced Hisamatsu Shigeharu to 18 months in prison, and Tada Toshiakipour to 12 months, with both cases suspended for three years. Former ADK president Ueno Shinichi is facing a separate trial after also admitting to paying bribes. At the end of April, the first trial of the corruption scandal at the Tokyo Games returned a fairly comparable verdict. Hironori Aoki, 84, the former president of the men's clothing chain in his name, also convicted of corrupting Takahashi Haruyuki, was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
