The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office indicted six companies and seven individuals Tuesday over suspected bid rigging linked to the Tokyo Games in violation of the Antimonopoly Law.
Dentsu Group Inc. and Yasuo Mori, 56, former deputy executive director of the Tokyo Games organizing committee's Operations Bureau, are among those named in a complaint filed by the Fair Trade Commission on the day.
This is the first time the FTC has brought criminal charges against advertising firms in connection with bid rigging.