Japan to probe 2020 Olympic bid payouts
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THE Japanese Olympic Committee yesterday announced its own probe of US$2 million allegedly paid to secure the 2020 Olympics, according to French investigators.
The JOC will set up a special team to look into the payments, which are already being investigated by French prosecutors and have been linked to a son of disgraced ex-world athletics chief Lamine Diack.
Allegations the payments were improper were first reported by Britain’s Guardian newspaper last week.
The JOC sent the money in two tranches to the now-defunct, Singapore-based Black Tidings firm, either side of the International Olympic Committee vote which gave Tokyo the 2020 Games, ignoring Istanbul and Madrid.
Diack, whose son Papa Massata Diack has denied receiving the money, was an IOC member at the time. Both men already face corruption charges in France related to the alleged cover-up of Russian doping cases.
“We decided to launch an investigation team, including outside lawyers, to probe whether there was illegality in the (consultants’) contract,” JOC president Tsunekazu Takeda, who led Tokyo’s bid, told parliament during a third straight day.
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