Tokyo 2020 bid payments ‘legitimate’
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PAYMENTS made by the Tokyo 2020 Olympics bid committee that have been questioned in media were legitimate consultant’s fees and were checked by auditors, two Japanese officials who led the successful bid said yesterday.
The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday the Tokyo bid team had made payments totalling more than US$2 million to a Singapore bank account it said was linked to Papa Massata Diack, son of disgraced former international athletics chief Lamine Diack.
In a statement, bidding committee ex-president Tsunekazu Takeda and ex-director general Nobumoto Higuchi said: “The Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee can confirm that it paid an amount for the professional services received for the following consultation work including; the planning of the bid; tutoring on presentation practice; advice for international lobbying communications; and service for information and media analysis.
“All these services were properly contracted using accepted business practices.”
Diack senior is under a French police investigation for corruption at the International Association of Athletics Federations during his time as president. His son, believed to be in Senegal, declined to comment because of the investigation, the paper reported.
The Singapore account where the money was allegedly deposited was controlled by Ian Tan Tong Han, a friend of the younger Diack. “The payments mentioned in the media were a legitimate consultant’s fee paid to the service we received from Mr Tan’s company,” Takeda and Higuchi said.
Takeda is currently a vice president of the Tokyo 2020 Games organization and the president of Japan’s Olympic Committee, as well as an International Olympic Committee member.
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