Yasuo Mori, former deputy executive director of the Tokyo Games organizing committee's Operations Bureau, showed a superior a list of prospective bids for pre-Games events around spring 2018 and changed the bidding format at his superior's behest, sources have said.
Mori, 55, has been arrested on suspicion of violating the Antimonopoly Law. He was directed by his superior to change the bidding format and told that advertising giant Dentsu Inc. planned to bid on "too many" events, the sources said.
The special investigation squad of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office now believes the superior's advice prompted Mori to accelerate the arrangement of who would win certain bids.
