JOC chief, others questioned over Tokyo 2020 payments at France's request

“The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee has no means of knowing the bid committee’s activities,” the organising committee >>said in an email to AFP.

Speechless ! Anyway, something tells me that the French prosecutors are also hardly convinced so they are pursuing their investigation and asked for that questioning session.

A yes, the $2.8 million paid to a shell company based in a vacant apartment in a Singaporean slum.

The payment was blatantly illegal, sent to a non-existent company set up solely to accept the money. But one cannot let criminal acts and corruption tarnish the games.

sangetsu - right on the dot.

Who could imagine anything illegal to $2.8m being paid to the shady friend of the son of the corrupt olympic official Diack - with half paid before the decision to award the olympics to Tokyo and the other half duly paid soon after the announcement. And it was paid for "services rendered", which if it was true, according to experts was many times over the going rate.

Nothing suspicious there.

But the money was facilitated by the infamous Dentsu - not the JOC - so they have plausible deniability!

Corrupt people bribing each other and telling lies about it. They're killing the Olympics, nobody wants it now...

nobody wants it now...

Which is why the games will probably be awarded to more developing countries, where blatant corruption is the norm, and no one ever does anything about it. They have more money nowadays than they used to, enough to fund the mediterranean villas and private jets belonging to powers-that-be in the Olympic organization.

One thing that I like about America is that corruption is less tolerated on such a large scale. Corruption does occur, as it is the raison de'tre to become a politician in any and every country in the world, but it is more actively punished in America than elsewhere, as recent stories involving FIFA and the World Cup revealed.

Base the Olympics organization permanently in New York City (like the UN headquarters), which will give the FBI the power to go after corrupt Olympics officials, regardless of which country they live in. Takeda could spend the rest of his life in a Federal prison instead of never being indicted at all, or given a suspended sentence in the extremely unlikely case he is ever tried and convicted.

I have told (prosecutors) the same explanation I’ve given (previously),

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Base the Olympics organization permanently in New York City (like the UN headquarters), which will give the FBI the power to go after corrupt Olympics officials

Exactly. Sepp Blatter's tower of corruption at FIFA finally fell apart because the New York FBI went after the monumentally bent Chuck Blazer, CONCACAF General Secretary from 1990 until 2011. They had Blazer bang to rights and he wound up wearing a wire at meetings during the London Olympics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case

Such a shame a repeat for the Olympic crooks seems unlikely. It would great for the image of global sport to see the likes of Takeda, Mori, Bach and all the rest being led away in handcuffs by the FBI.

Still 3 years to go and the games could still be held in London where none of this corruption took place. I hope Mori is having some sleepless nights, but doubt that buffoon is capable of caring. Koike on the other hand must be.

Mori accused. cleared. now accused again.