Fine They are Japan’s largest advertising agency for manipulation of Tokyo 2020 tenders

Japanese justice punished the largest advertising agency in the country on Thursday, Dentsuto pay A fine of 300 million yen (about 1.9 million euros) for its involvement in the manga of tenders linked to the Olympic and Paralympic Tokyo 2020.

The Tokyo District Court accepted the penalty requested by the prosecutor’s office It is considered that Dentsu violated the Antimonopoly Act for conspiracy with the organization committee of games to give the aforementioned tenders to a specific group of companies.

A former high executive of dentsu has also been punished today, Koji Hemmi57, which imposed a two -year penalty penalty, the four -year freedom was suspended, according to the decision -making details collected by the Japanese newspaper Nikkei.

Defender’s defense has argued that the list has accumulated according to the preference of the organization committee and although Dentsu He recognized the illegal planning of test contests, rejected irregularities in the main contest.

This belief is the latest linked to Amandal by AMAÑO of providing contracts to plan test events prior , and where he was punished for two years in prison, suspended in four, the former executive director and head of games, Yasuo Mori.

A sum of six companies and seven people They have been accused of manipulating tenders, with contracts worth an estimated 43.7 billion yen (more than 270 million euros).

Japan’s second largest advertising firm, Hakuhodoand the company’s organization company Cepry They were also convicted of cases, 200 and 280 million yen (1.2 and 1.7 million euros), respectively.

The soft scandal was discovered within the framework of a broader investigation after receiving a bribe from one of the members of the Committee, the organization committee, was noticed, Haruyuki Takahashi . of Tokyo.

The judicial process against the central figure of the case, Takahashi.