French prosecutors are investigating Tsunekazu Takeda for allegedly paying a bribe to secure Tokyo’s successful Olympic bid.
By Simon Denyer and Simon Denyer Tokyo bureau chief covering Japan, North Korea and South Korea. Email Bio Follow Akiko Kashiwagi March 19 at 9:10 AM French prosecutors placed Takeda under formal investigation in December over suspicions that he paid a bribe to help secure Tokyo’s bid to host next year’s Summer Olympics.
French investigators have spent years investigating corruption in athletics as well as the bidding and voting process surrounding the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the Tokyo 2020 Games. However, criticism of his lack of candor mounted in Japan after he held a seven-minute news conference in January in which he denied the charges but declined to take questions.
But Takeda’s departure and denial of illegality appear unlikely to wash away a scandal that has already dampened enthusiasm for the Games. Nobuo Gohara, a former prosecutor who runs his own law firm, has also been very critical of the way the JOC has dealt with the allegations against Takeda.
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