Four more executives from advertising and event companies including Hakuhodo Inc. are suspected of involvement in bid rigging linked to the Tokyo Games, according to sources.
Four others have already been arrested on suspicion of violating the Antimonopoly Law over alleged bid rigging for pre-Games events, including Yasuo Mori, former deputy director of the Tokyo Games organizing committee's Operations Bureau, former Dentsu Inc. executive Koji Henmi and executives from event company Cerespo Co. and TV production company Fuji Creative Corp.
In addition to the executives linked to Dentsu, Cerespo and Fuji Creative, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation squad is also looking into suspected bid rigging by executives of Hakuhodo, ADK Holdings Inc., Tokyu Agency Inc. and Same Two Inc.
