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© (Thomson Reuters 2020.Businessman paid $8.2 mil by Tokyo Olympics bid lobbied figure at center of French corruption probe
By Antoni Slodkowski, Nathan Layne, Mari Saito and Ami Miyazaki TOKYO/PARIS©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Pacificpilot
The old adage goes: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it must be a horse. All the chicanery and debauchery involved in the network of bribes leads one to believe in what the Japanese call “bachi”. The postponed Olympics will cost it’s citizens Olympic sized losses of billions of dollars. All of the co-conspirators should be held financially accountable. Shame on them. They have reduced the Olympic flame to a flicker
Rvha_3209
Well feels like this Olympic was already a bad start right from the beginning. And the French are doing a 'great job' of investigating this problem right where people are dying constantly in France and around the world from the virus. Well they sure do know that nobody is going to give a care about this outcome since everyone's attention is on the virus situation. Public diversion at its best.
mmwkdw
Well there you go...Japan isn't sure pure as we've been led to believe.
Infact, it's nothing unusual in Politics, Globally, the Majority, I'd dare say, are bent - on the take in one way or another.
I'd welcome a Survey and poll upon the best Politicans ever, and the reasons why those responded thought so - that, may be an interesting and thought provoking read.
macv
I was opposed to allowing Japan to host the Olymics because of too much corruption. TOLD YA SO :-)
Mocheake
This is pretty shocking finding out that they bought votes. It was almost as shocking as when I realized that water was wet.
Yumster100
gakinotsukai
hey, naïve, this investigation started years ago
Tom Doley
You know Japan is guilty of corruption when the JOC 'accidentally' shredded/hid/lost/[add whatever excuse] all the financial documents just days prior to the independent investigation, and when the previous head of the JOC Takeda resigned over alleged corruption, apparently to save Japan's face/butt.
Wesley
Wow, the French really have got their priorities right. Wuhan virus going around? Let's investigate Olympics corruption..
Lorem ipsum
How interesting. Facta was the same company that reported the whistleblowing incident at Olympus first too if i'm not wrong.
smithinjapan
Well, colour me surprised! It's not really any surprise, either, that they cling to the same dates so strongly, and delayed postponement forever, also sacrificing the health of the nation in the process. All for some extra money.
Now, the question is, what low-level secretary is going to have to be "the one who took the notes and made the actions", because I mean, surely Mori and Abe and others had absolutely no idea what was going on.
browny1
Facta reported on this first. Thankfully there are still credible journalists operating in Japan with a conscience.
And just gotta love that $1.3mill was paid to Mori's NPO with a staff of 1.
I mean it can't get any higher than this - an ex PM, the great grandson of the Meiji emperor Takeda and one of the Biggest Advertising companies in the world and sponsor of the olympics - Dentsu.
Just give up the olympics for evermore.
Wesley
How is he any different from china businessmen and CCP members who do the same in Western countries? Why do you think WHO and other big organizations keep kow-towing to them?
$$$$$$
geronimo2006
Loved the facial expression of a man who screwed up has just been busted . But he shouldn't worry too much, a few deep bows will suffice. Unless, of course, some of that money came from the wrong people. But that will never be made public, somehow.
Dan Lavender
utterly despicable as usual..
they need locking up!!!
serendipitous1
Sounds like some gold, silver and bronze medals for corruption can be awarded!
Hunter James
They go after Ghosn like hounds without looking at all the bribery and corruption involving their own people! Japanese judicial system is as corrupt as Japanese companies!
Bjorn Tomention
Are these guys in jail yet, why not?
HBJ
Japan Inc. - Rotten to the core.
We all know it, but nobody here is allowed to say it. I wonder how many media outlets, TV in particular, will run this story.
moonbloom
Standard working procedure for the LDP and associates. That is the way it was founded. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html
Pukey2
At this point, I really don't give a d*mn if the Olympics are cancelled.
Tora
The man without the chin is the fall guy. It goes much higher than that, Likely all the way to the top.
That's why the Olympic circus absolutely must take place.
Alfie Noakes
Remarkable, a news report that actually mentions Dentsu involvement in bribery and corruption. A clear indication that the journalism wasn't done by any domestic media organisation.
Comedy gold. I laughed until I stopped.
Our tax money, of course.
Fiddlers
As usual double standards for Japan's elite.
garymalmgren
Will be interesting to see how Japan handles the French extradition request.
Gary
BertieWooster
Where did the money for these bribes come from?
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gogogo
Please investigate, Abe and Aso are behind this
aomorisamurai
Where's this guy's chin?
JeffLee
No surprise. They did the same thing for the Nagano Games. They couldnt be properly investigated because they had incinerated the financial documents.
yildiray
I’m looking forward to learning which minister(s) end up “amakudari”-ing their way into Dentsu now...