Ex-Tokyo Olympics operations exec arrested over bid rigging

Ex-Tokyo Olympics operations exec arrested over bid rigging

Journalists gather in front of a building housing the head office of leading Japanese advertising agency Dentsu Inc. in Tokyo after prosecutors arrested a former operations executive at the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee the same day on suspicion of playing a leading role in bid rigging for contracts related to games test events. The executive and Dentsu officials are suspected of collusion.

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