A senior executive of Aoki Holdings Inc. compiled a list of requests that was handed in 2018 to a then executive member of the Tokyo Games organizing committee, seeking to enable the major business wear retailer to sell official Games merchandise among other requests, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
Katsuhisa Ueda, the senior Aoki executive, was arrested by prosecutors Wednesday on suspicion of paying bribes, while Haruyuki Takahashi, the former Games executive board member, was arrested the same day on suspicion of receiving them.
