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Haruyuki Takahashi, govt board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Video games arrives at Tokyo 2020 Government Board Assembly in Tokyo on March 30, 2020.Issei Kato/The Related Press
A former Tokyo Olympics official arrested on bribery fees was granted bail on Monday, public broadcaster NHK reported.
A Tokyo District courtroom set bail for Haruyuki Takahashi at 80 million yen ($603,000), NHK reported.
Prosecutors have raided a number of corporations in latest months in a widening corruption scandal associated to the Tokyo Video games.
Takahashi, a former member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics board and earlier than that an govt at promoting large Dentsu Inc, was arrested in August on suspicion of receiving bribes from Olympic sponsors.
Reuters reported in 2020 that Takahashi, who was paid thousands and thousands of {dollars} to work on Tokyo’s profitable bid for the Olympics, mentioned he performed a key function in securing the assist of a former Olympics powerbroker who was later suspected by French prosecutors of taking bribes to assist Japan’s bid.
