Hironori Aoki, founder of Aoki Holdings, along with two other former executives today (Thursday) pleaded guilty to bribing a former member of the organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games as trials into corruption allegations concerning sponsorship deals swung into action.
Hironori Aoki, former chairman of the company; his brother and the firm’s former vice-chairman Takahisa Aoki; and Katsuhisa Ueda, an executive director, have been charged with providing a total of ¥28m (€199,320/$210,988) to Haruyuki Takahashi, who had influence over Tokyo 2020’s marketing division.
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